Stellar Martial Arts

3. Deciding Path

When it was finally morning, Ling Chen felt a hand on his shoulder. He stopped crying and turn around to see who it was. it was Feng Jiayi who was standing behind him until now with her tiny hand on his shoulder. She said " B..big brother Chen, please stop crying now. Grandpa Ling wouldn't want you to keep crying like this, he will always be watching over you, you wouldn't make him sad...would you?"

Ling Chen nodded his head when he saw she also had two lines of tear marks on her cheeks. He said " Jiayi, you are right, I won't make him sad anymore. He was always worried because I didn't have any interest in cultivation and learning martial arts and would always be weak because of it, from now on I'm going to give my all to become stronger so that grandpa won't worry about me." 

He then put his grandfather's body that he had in his arms, carefully onto the bed and said " grandpa you don't have to worry about me anymore, I'll become strong and live my life happily like you always told me to. Rest in peace Grandpa." 

After saying this he clenched his fists, took a deep breath and made up his mind to keep this promise to his grandfather.

" Jiayi...thank you for always supporting me, I'm going to prepare for grandpa's funeral, you should rest up a little." Saying this he went out of the room, his eyes were blank like a dead person, he was on brink of losing his mind but remembered the promise he just made to his grandfather.

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After Ling xiao's funeral, Ling Chen mourned for 3 days and nights without moving. Feng Jiayi also wanted to accompany him but he sent her with her father. 

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He took a bath and had a light meal. Then he collected all the money that was available in his home. In total, he only had 5 gold and 3 silver. He sighed ruefully.

" I wonder how much he was worried when he saw our savings dwindle to this."

'According to grandpa, in this world, martial might is everything. If you are strong enough you can have everything you want, Be it respect, money, grand palaces, beautiful women, slaves anything you need will be yours.

I think it is about time I acquired a cultivation art but I have to think carefully before deciding what I'm going to be in future. If I remember correctly, grandpa once told me that there are mainly two types of cultivation. The first one is normal cultivation where you cultivate, increase your realm and become stronger....this type of cultivation is comparatively easy, you just have to find a cultivation art and cultivate using the Qi* of heaven and earth. The second type is Steller cultivation. Cultivators who cultivate in steller martial arts are much stronger compared to others.

But it is a little difficult to cultivate in steller martial cultivation because there aren't many cultivation arts and steller cultivators aren't that common because thousands of years ago, for some unknown reason many strong steller cultivators went missing along with their legacies. Some legacies were found but were monopolised by stronger sects.'

' Steller cultivation is the way for me to go because I have only reached the 2nd layer of body tempering realm and have very limited Qi of heaven and earth in my body.'

 To cultivate in steller martial cultivation one should not have cultivated in Qi of heaven and earth that is why steller cultivation is different from normal cultivation. Normal cultivation is done using Qi of heaven and earth whereas, in Steller cultivation, steller Qi or Star Qi is used. Star Qi is much more powerful and beneficial to humans compared to Qi of heaven and earth but also is much more difficult to cultivate. 

Qi of heaven and earth is easily available in the environment and there are many resources of it, For example, Yuan stones. Yuan stones are found in yuan veins, these veins form when Qi of heaven and earth accumulates for long periods.

Similarly, you can find star stones that contains Star Qi but there are fewer veins because Star Qi is difficult to accumulate in one place without special conditions. Although Star Qi is present everywhere, even in the places where Qi of heaven and earth is thinner or is almost negligible because Star Qi come from stars and celestial bodies like the sun and moon but cultivation is slower using Star Qi due to its pureness of it.

If you want to cultivate Star Qi you have to refine it using your own unique Qi which is difficult compared to refining Qi of heaven and earth, that is why it is difficult to cultivate in steller martial cultivation. every creature of nature has its own unique Qi. 

This unique Qi is divided into 10 types of it. These are, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Black, Golden and White, Red being the lowest of quality while white is the highest of quality one can achieve.

This unique Qi is something everyone has had since birth but it isn't fixed and can be levelled up using some special means. The highest quality of your unique Qi is, the easier and faster you can cultivate. One's talent is judged by the quality of your unique Qi, those who have a higher quality of unique Qi than orange, have better chances of breaking through realms and reaching higher realms.

Your 'talent' is judged when you are 14 years of age. Those who can reach the top of the body tempering realm that is, 9th layer, or higher in most cases have better than orange unique Qi and are easily able to enter cultivation sects and have a common population respect them.

 So if one wants to cultivate faster and are in hurry to live luxurious life always tend to choose normal cultivation but if you want to be strong then only Steller martial cultivation can fulfil your wish until you didn't reach a specific realm of cultivation where the difference between the normal and stellar martial cultivators starts showing, you may have to get bullied because of your lower realm than other people.

''But I don't have to worry about it as I'm already used to being treated that way" thinking this Ling Chen smirked