Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 164 Orcon Forest 2 Viii : Waking Up, Gains

Alex furrowed his eyebrows at the squeaky male voice that sound a little to excited for his own good, he didn't need to think too much time to know that something was wrong. He got back up to his feet, not at all conscious of his state of undress as the pieces of his clothes fell off, luckily his underwear survived. He used his right hand to moved the hair from his face, and his left arm to support his waist as he stretched, then he stopped.

By his foot was the remains of a desiccated arm, normally things like this wouldn't spook Alex, but when he wholeheartedly recognized said arm as his own, and the fact that he remembers losing an arm during his crazy cultivation experience, if even better yet the fact that the arm that was lost had been regrown and didn't seem as if it was lost in the first place. It was beyond amazing and quite honestly very terrifying, he had no idea what questions to ask until he heard Ébié's voice in his mind.

(You're welcome Master, but you should be more careful next time. Limbs are easy for me to restore, but what if you get form in half, that would be next to impossible for me to fix.)

There was a mischievousness to her voice as she spoke to him, but none the less it spoke volumes of what just happened or rather what had already happened. Ébié has healing abilities that are downright ridiculous, her specific words were that if he were torn in half, it would be next to impossible to fix, not that it would be impossible. Healing abilities as crazy as this was honestly...…G.o.dlike. He was lost deep in his thoughts, but even if he was so lost in those thoughts his body was able to react as his hand waved through the air and caught the bullet that was just shot at his head.

Alex furrowed his eyebrows in surprise, he looked at the silver metal in his hand, and then down at the large crowd of people that were gathered around the crater with very obvious mining equipment. It didn't take a genius for Alex to understand what was going on here, and hat was the fact that someone else had gotten here before Louis, they didn't notice him on the still sixty foot tall meteorite, so they a.s.sumed this was a pressure ore right in the middle of the forest with no one to claim it. Unfortunately that was just bulls.h.i.t, Mana didn't fall from the heavens just like that.

"You! Who the f.u.c.k are you? This is my Sky steel, carry your exhibitionist body and get the f.u.c.k out!" Alex looked down to see a lanky fellow dressed entirely in red and with a gun that seemed a little to extravagant. Alex knew the value of the ma.s.sive chunk of Sky steel he was standing on top, and maybe he would have been able to come to a compromise, but this guy tried to kill him even without knowing who he was...…Alex didn't like that. So he called Khan out, who happily materialized besides his master with a ferocious look on his face.

"My Name is Alex, but most people know me as Zhang Xiao Feng; Childe Spirit Wind of the heaven's empire..."

"And so f.u.c.king what! I don't care who you are! What'd you want you fool, get off my money making rock!" the guy in very rich and extravagant red called screamed out, not at all willing to listen to reason, though his companion were definitely smarter as a few of them seemed to have moved to the side to send messages.

"Aish! Master this guy is so stupid and loud! And he's trying to steal from us in broad daylight, does he not see all the scotch marks left on the big shiny rock, and the surrounding area! Doesn't he know he's playing with his life?" Khan asked, and just loud enough for the man to hear and to take pause with his pampered tirade, enough to actually notice how much of a terrible state the crater was in, the boasted pieces of rocks, the scorch marks on the crater, Alex's state of undress and his white hair that seemed to be sizzling with electricity everything the wind blew through it.

Alex would rather avoid a fight if he could help it, Louis should not be too far away from here, though Alex really couldn't see him, he could feel him.

Louis along with Anya, Xiao Mei and surprisingly Zhang Wuxi were drawing close and were about two kilometers away. Alex couldn't help but smile, he had his awareness covering an area of at least two kilometers in every direction. It was probably a hundred times better than other people who advance to the soul refining realm, but the shocking fact was that he was just in the true essence realm, still stuck in the mortal gate, yet he had abilities those in the soul sensing realm would even struggle to learn and would be unable to go past ten meters.

Alex got the feeling that if he r.e.t.a.r.ded the range, the effect of this ability would be more powerful. He would sense things clearer at a kilometer as opposed to two, and at twenty five meters, Alex could even tell the color of a person's underwear if he wanted to. Being a spirit commander seems to come with a lot of perks, apart from an increase in the amount of spirit energy he has, Alex could now feel trace amounts of it in the air and in living beings, with enough time he was sure he would be able to manipulate it. It was kind of like having a second sight, and with this new perception domain of his, Alex could not just see spirit, but the flow of every other kind of energy. Khan was lit up like a beacon, his body being a nebula of red, black, and grey with tiny Sparks of light running through it.

Alex sat down, marveled by his gains, from the look of things he really should out himself in danger more often and fight dangerous creatures. Sure the fight wasn't as desperate as it should have been, but the rapid usage of spirit energy, especially to use Ébié had pushed his body to the limit, not to mention he has been dodging and dealing with death before he got here. All of his experiences together had combined to give him the push he needed to advance, and he did it in such an overbearing and ridiculous manner.

When they said Alex would have slow cultivation speed they weren't wrong, focusing on just Qi alone would have taken him a long time to get to this level, probably another year of two, it would be shorter if he realized on pills and herbs, but that's not really recommended.

But his Qi cultivation is supplemented by his spirit cultivation, they supported each other making up for the deficiencies of the other. With spirit energy he couldn't attack directly and could only augment like the domain he just developed, or perform rituals. Direct battle was out of his reach unless he used the abilities of the spirit mask and Khan. But it gave him access to not just immense power, but the unseen part of humanity, the ghosts, the souls all of these were laid bare to him, along with a mental strength that was unlike any other. Qi gave him ridiculously strong body and abilities that could cause real damage by relying on his own strength.

He had been told that Qi is the physicality of spirit energy, but since it mostly tends to be balanced and mild it's hard to notice that sort of it.

Basically spirit was like a combination of yin and yang. Separate those two, and yin becomes Mana, and yang becomes Qi. But they were not the same, spirit can't do what Mana or Qi can do, and vice versa. Some moves can be replicated to a degree, but it would never be the same as the other.

But beyond the advancement in cultivation or the very real fact that Alex felt a new kind of energy from his heart, the biggest gain apart from the change of hair color and the tribulation lightning now living in the roots of his hair, Alex had forgotten every single martial art he had learned.

Sure he knew their names, but there was nothing more, and no matter how hard he tried to recall it, there was only one thing or rather one name that came to mind. It was the (Wind G.o.d Martial Series), and he only knew three moves from it, or rather it would be better to say he knew the basic moves of three distinct type of martial art. A fist move, a weapon move that could be used regardless of which weapon, tough it has to be a blade, and a movement technique. In his mind it was like skill tree that he had to follow, so much so that Alex could even use his spirit energy to tabulate the data and progression of the skill, and even make it appear before him.

But before he could do that, someone had slashed a saber at him, releasing a life beam of energy that normally would have cleaved even the toughest steel in half. But Alex was not steel, seems this guy won't rest unless he gets the beating he wants, and Alex was itching to try something new out.