Ah Chun: Ascending The Heavens 237 Qi Gathering And Nine Meridians

The next morning Ah Chun got up early like she normally did. She started her day off with her normal training regimen. After which she took a bath to get the sweat off her body before she went to start cultivating. Today she was going to try to break through to the qi gathering realm. This way she could start doing the sect missions and start earning contribution points in order to take out skills and other resources from the sect. Ah Chun did not really need such things but she figured it would still be good to have and knowledge of this worlds techniques would come in handy.

Ah Chun had been spending most of her time in Li Chen Bao's courtyard since Li Chen Bao was still having a hard time sleeping at night by herself. Ah Chun had also gotten used to the warmth of someone next to her while she slept. But today she was sitting crossed leg on her own bed as she entered a state of cultivation.

The qi gathering realm of this world strengthened one's meridians and prepared one's dantian to hold spiritual qi. This realm still lacked the ability to use spirit power but it strengthened the physical body making the cultivator stronger with each realm. The trick with qi gathering compared to body refining was that you now need to guide the flow of spiritual qi through your meridians.  Which, Ah Chun was a natural at. It took no more than five minutes to complete her first cycle and enter the qi gathering realm. But Ah Chun was not just happy with that. She remembered the feeling of cycling through more than eight meridians, Ah Chun wanted to see if it was possible to open a ninth meridian. This will give her an overwhelming advantage over the others in the same realm as her.  if she was able to do so then that also meant she could open the rest of the one hundred and eight meridians.

Ah Chun continued to take in and circulate the spiritual qi within her body. Once she circulated it a few times she would send the spiritual qi to her ninth meridian. When the spiritual qi slammed into a wall blocking it from going any further  Ah Chun would let out a groan of pain. Although it was painful to try to open a meridian it was it was not as bad as it was on her old world. There opening a meridian was like someone shattering all the bones in your body over and over again. while this was a sharp pain as if one was being stabbed.

Ah Chun continued to take in more and more spiritual qi into her body. A small vortex starter to form around Ah Chun sucking in all the spiritual qi on the mountain peak. Elder Dan felt the fluctuation in the spiritual qi in the air and immediately went to find the source. When she arrived at Ah Chun's courtyard she was shocked to see the streams of spiritual qi flooding into Ah Chun's room.

Elder Dan walked to Ah Chun's bedroom and opened the door. She did not enter because she did not want to bother Ah Chun and disturb her in case she was doing something that if disturbed during the process of would end up causing her harm to her body or cultivation. But what really surprised Elder dan was that Ah Chun had already broken through to the qi gathering realm without any effort at all. Normally it would take a day or two to break through but she could have sworn that Ah Chun had just recently started cultivating not too long ago on this day.

Ah Chun had no idea she was being watched by Elder Dan  nor did she care. Her concentration was fully focused on opening the ninth meridian. Ah Chun winced in pain as she let out a gasp. She could not help but furrow her brow as sweat started to drip down. 

Cycle after cycle Ah Chun slammed the spiritual qi she gathered into the barrier that was blocking her ninth meridian. After almost one hundred cycles Ah Chun finally felt that the barrier was weakening. She decided to try to break through it in one go so she actually collected the spiritual qi in the air until she could hold no more. She then rushed the spiritual qi through her meridians and circulated it a few times on the normal path through her meridians to gather some speed before pus.h.i.+ng it towards the blocked ninth meridian. The ma.s.s of spiritual qi slammed into the barrier causing Ah Chun to scream out in pain but along with her pain, Ah Chun could hear a booming sound coming from within her.

*boom!*

The vortex of spiritual qi that surrounded Ah Chun grew ten times in size as spiritual qi rushed into Ah Chun's body sending her body into another refinement process. Every part of Ah Chun's body started to strengthen ten times more than it was before. A black stinky substance started to push out of Ah Chun's pores covering her body. Elder Dan how that Ah Chun was expelling out impurities from her body was somewhat shocked as to how she was still expelling so many impurities after breaking through to the qi gathering realm.

Ah Chun showed a faint smile as she opened her eyes. "I was able to do it! Nine meridians. I will have to work hard later to open more." Ah Chun muttered to herself. Ah Chun could feel her strength surging through her body. The difference between having eight meridians open compared to nine meridians was like night and day. Ah Chun looked down at her body a frowned. This was the one thing she hated about cultivation. The impurities that came out of your body stunk badly!  Ah Chun went to get up but stopped when she saw Elder Dan standing in the doorway looking at her.

"Master?"

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