In martial arts novels, someone who usually cultivates for a long time can have various abilities such as a hard body, a deadly blow that can destroyed a wall, even at a later stage, cultivation can make a person looks young or become an immortal.In fact, cultivation in the martial world is a process where a person collects energy (QI) in the body. Indeed in the real world, there are urban legends that might be true about the levels in cultivation.
In the Magus of Java book that Lie once read in the earth, there are several achievements in cultivation. For example, to be able to have QI that is used to make opponents deeply injured, at least requires cultivation up to Lv 2.
To be able to burn paper with bare hands, it is likely to require a level of achievement of Lv 10 QI and above. For cases where someone can fly, teleport, live forever or go to the realm above the mortal world, one must reach Lv 40.
Each Lv has different requirements and training. As an ill.u.s.tration, to reach Lv 2, we need meditation with cultivation quality for 1 hour. Where usually in 1 hour the quality of meditation we get can only worth of 1 minute. Additional information, we shouldn"t be allowed to do e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.i.o.n in the certain training process.
This means we have to meditate for approximately 40 hours to reach Lv 2.
As a person who studied martial arts for approximately 6 years plus the cultivation process he lived. Lie has reached Lv 3, it"s a respected level for an ordinary human.
In the end, after he arrived in this world, all of his training experience was in vain just because he could not learn magic.
Not that he gave up, as the only person who understood cultivation, he felt maybe he could do something about Mana.
"Okay. First of all, I have to learn what is Mana. If it"s spread in nature like QI, then I can learn about it through cultivation," he muttered to himself.
Then Lie starts to sit and crossing his leg in the middle of the training ground. He tried to focus his mind on the breath, his eyes closed, his heart began to calm down. Slowly, as usual, he began to feel the YANG QI in him, and YING QI also began to feel in the surrounding environment. However, there was something unusual, between the QI that began to flow into him, there was a substance of foreign energy, it felt quite stinging and sharp.
"Is this what is called Mana?" he thought.
Lie began trying to collect QI and foreign energy just into his Dantien. Different from the container referred to by people here, who can gather Mana. Dantien is a container prepared through certain respiration training to be used in gathering QI and doing cultivation. This container is owned by every human being, only there are a people who trained and not. It"s not the same with the capacity of Mana container which has been determined since humans were born.
The energy starts to be sucked by Lie into his Dantien. Slowly, Lie felt his body become thicker. His mind became clear and light. Power seemed to gather inside him.
"Ah! This is definitely Mana! "
Then he began to focus on gathering QI and foreign energy continuously. For some reason, the energy he considered Mana felt so fast flowing into his body, binding the QI attached to the energy. The quality of cultivation that he collected became accelerated ten times faster.
"Even if I am not talented to save mana in my body, with this cultivation technique I found another method to gather Mana and use it for magic later. Moreover, my cultivation feels faster. One slap for two flies, "he said to himself.
His consciousness sank into his body. He cannot realize the world around him. What he feels is more like, his soul is free from his physical body and then begins to unite with the flow of energy in the world.
[Can you hear me?]
"Who is that?"
[Here I am, I"ve been waiting for more than a thousand years. Is that you?]
"Who do you mean?"
[I...]
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" A loud shout made Lie stopped his meditation.
Lie opened his eyes. His position was not in cross-legged meditation anymore. His face pressed hard on the ground, he was on his stomach, one hand was locked behind. Someone is holding his locked hand while sitting on his back.
"Ah ... what"s wrong? Why my body suddenly facing down to the ground like this?" Lie asks in confusion.
"Look around you!" Shouted the man.
Lie was surprised after seeing the scene in front of him. Some cracks on the ground in the form of blows or footsteps are seen everywhere. Some sandbags were destroyed as if they had received an explosion. Other objects such as a toolbox, or weapons such as spears and swords scattered, broken or bent. The effects of damage that occur are large enough for a single human like him can do.
"W-what happened?" Lie asked once more.
The person let go of Lie"s hand. Then he began to speak in a slower tone.
"You are already aware of it. This is all your work," the man, who was none other than Yuristo, gave an explanation.
"But ... all I do is meditation," Lie replied.
"You become berserk a while ago. Obviously, it"s is dangerous."
"Berserk?"
Yuristo sighed just before giving an explanation, "you became drunk because of Mana overload."
"Can you explain more?"
"If the Mana amount on your body is higher than your Mana container, then the Mana will start to damage the nerves. And your mind becomes crazy," Yuristo answered Lie"s question while trying to be patient. "It should be impossible to forcing Mana from entering the body, how can you do that?"
"I ... I just did meditation to gather QI ... I mean energy into my body ..." Lie replied innocently.
Yuristo thinks silently. Then he expelled Lie with a waving gesture, imitate the boss.
"Don"t do that again. If I not coming to this place, we won"t know what will happen to you. In the worst case scenario, you can go crazy, or die. Now, sleep. Let me take care of this."
Obediently, Lie walking back into the servants" resting tent. There is some new information that he can conclude from this incident. Which is the Mana that only exists in this world, is attached to other energy known as QI.
Besides that, there are things that really bother him. When he doing ordinary cultivation, he will become a rampage like this because of Mana, it would mean that he would not be able to do cultivate in this new world.
Even so, this was better than being desperate. This time he was convinced that there was still untouched knowledge by him. He could be stronger than now. Evenly, he must get any information from this world. Because, there are still many possibilities for the future that have not been touched or thought of by him.
Lie smiled with satisfaction. His despair that he had reached his limit in this world, was broken. Exciting Mysteries and adventures await him in the future.
"But, what happened when my meditation become deeper? There are, someone who tries to establish a communication with me. Maybe it"s just a delusion... "