As the next one starts, Zhi feels the pain ramp up. It is worse than the first time and by the time the pain stops and is replaced by a dull ache, Zhi is almost catatonic from the pain. As the next one starts it doesn’t take Zhi long to black out from the pain. The next few hours are spent either in lucid moments of agonizing pain or in the sweet embrace of unconsciousness.

Zhi can feel his head resting on something soft as a hand gently strokes his hair. He opens his eyes slowly and looks up into the face of an old woman. She smiles down at him and says in a soft voice, "How are you feeling dear?"

"Like I was run over by a truck."

She continues to stroke his hair as she says, "That's normal, just rest more and it will pass. Then we will move on to the next part." She begins to hum a tune as Zhi slowly falls asleep.

Zhi wakes up later feeling refreshed, he sits up naked and alone in a room. Looking around he finds his clothes neatly folded on a chair next to the bed he is on. Putting on his clothes, he walks out of the room into the area he first arrived at. Sitting at a table is a young boy, no older than ten years old. The boy is in the middle of writing something in a book as Zhi walks closer to the table. The boy pauses and looks up at him as he says, "Up already, it's only been two days."

"Two days? Is time different here like in the mind transfer training?"

"Yes don't worry you have only really been here for about an hour at this point. Let me finish this and I will take you to learn the next part." The boy looks back down and begins to write again. After a few minutes he finishes and the book vanishes as he stands up.

"Come follow me and I will lead you to a study area.” The boy walks into a doorway and Zhi follows him down a hallway. They pass by a few corridors and doorways, and even turn into and walk down a couple of them to get to a big open area filled with rows of bookshelves. As they arrive in the area, the boy calls out to a young woman who is sorting some items. “Little Xiao, this is a guest of mine and he will be with us for the next little while. If you would, please assist him with anything he might need while here.”

The woman places the item in her hand away then turns around, Zhi couldn’t see it from where he was. But after she turned around and came closer, he could see her slightly pointed ears and feline type golden eyes. She bows and says, “It would be my pleasure to assist your guest master.” She turns slightly too Zhi and does another bow and says, “I am Huang Xiaohui, please let me know how I can be of use to you.”

Zhi smiles at the woman, then bows in return as he says, “It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, my name is Ming Zhi.”

The young boy looks up at Xiaohui and says, “Little Xiao, please get the books for The Innumerable Body Technique. He just woke up from the meridians expansion process, you should know what he will need now. When he is finished please bring him to me.”

Xiaohui winces slightly, as she says. “Yes master, I will get them right away. Zhi, if you walk straight ahead you will come to a reading area, I will bring the books to you there.” Xiaohui turns and walks away into the stacks of books.

“Once you complete this next part we can finally get on to training the skill. I will see you when you are finished.” The boy doesn’t wait for a response and just walks out of the area. As the boy walks out, Zhi starts walking into the stacks of books, straight ahead of him. The bookshelves surrounding him are big, over double Zhi’s height and filled with books. So look new, some look old, and they are all written in different languages. After almost ten minutes of just walking forward, Zhi comes to a lounge area filled with pretty nice looking couches, big reading chairs, a few tables with chairs and spots just covered in big pillows.

Zhi walks over to one of the big reading chairs and sinks into the soft fabric it is upholstered in. A few minutes later Xiaohui walks in carrying a large stack of books, which she sets down on a reading table next to Zhi as she says, “Congratulations on doing the first part. I was out for over two weeks when the master widened my meridians.”

She turns and smiles down at Zhi as she says, “These are the books you need to read and memorize. But you don’t have to worry, as you read them a rune enchantment on the book will help you remember everything from them. You just need to keep a constant state of Qi following into the book. Once you are done, just call for me and I will be with you in a few moments.”

As she begins to walk away, Zhi picks up the first book and says. “Thanks for your help Xiaohui.”

Looking down at the first book Zhi is surprised at the name of the book, “The Study of The Human Body.” He looks over at the other books stacked on the table and sees others of the same type, some are about meridians, Qi, and the soul. Some are about specific things like the human reproduction cycle and how the heart controls blood flow through the body. Another one is just titled, “The Wonderful Thing That is Hair.” Zhi just shakes his head and opens the first book, it takes him a few minutes to figure out how to trigger the rune enchantment. But once it is working properly he begins to read the first book.

Zhi would like to say that he is a fast reader, but that would only be for things that he enjoys reading. New cookbooks, sci/fi, fantasy, martial heroes, action, adventure, he could read those types of stories all day. But this stuff, this was making his eyes bleed. He was about halfway through the stack of books at this point and he really wanted to stop. But stopping just meant he would need to start again, so instead he just kept reading.

It’s hard to tell how much time has passed as Zhi set down the last book and let out a groan. The light never changed here, and there was no clock anywhere that Zhi could see. Actually it seemed like he was alone in this place. He didn’t hear or see Xiaohui once since she left him to his pile of torment. Standing up and stretching his body, Zhi lets out a sigh. Then looking around, not seeing Xiaohui he says, “Xiaohui I am finished with the books you gave me.”

A second later a reply comes from off to the side “I will be there in just a moment.”

Zhi looks in the direction of the voice and a minute later Xiaohui emerges from between a set of bookshelves. She smiles at Zhi and says, “Since you are done, I will lead you to my master now. Please follow me this way.”

She walks past Zhi and he falls into step behind her. It takes them almost twenty minutes to get outside of the library area and into a hallway. After another ten minutes of walking through hallways and corridors, they arrive in a room half filled with mirrors. An old man is seated on a pillow off to the side, a pot of tea is sitting on a table next to him as he reads from a book. He looks up and says, “A little over four days to finish all those books, that is impressive. Most people take a few weeks to slog through all of that reading material.” He gives Xiaohui a glance as he says that.

Xiaohui pouts and says, “Master, those books are too boring. I could only read some of them before I had to do something else. You don’t want my brain to melt from over work do you?”

“No little Xiao, of course not. Thank you for your help, please clean up the library and then you may go cultivate in the thunder essence room.”

Xiaohui smiles wide and bows to the old man as she says, “Thank you master, I will take care of it right away.” Xiaohui practically runs out of the room and doesn’t say anything to Zhi.

The old man simply shakes his head and looks over to Zhi and says, “Now for the last part, strip and stand in front of the mirrors. I will tell you what to do from there.”

Zhi doesn’t say anything but strips naked, placing his clothes on one of the floor pillows around the table. Then walks in front of the mirrors. The way they are placed he can pretty much see every angle of himself by only moving a little bit. He hears the old man say, “Now since you have memorized all those books, this should be simple. The first thing you are going to do is change your hair. Focus your Qi and have it stimulate your hair growth. I want you to grow your hair out to the middle of your back. Then I want you to change your hair color, make bundles of different colors.”

Zhi starts to do as he was asked. At first he thought he might run into an issue with the old man's commands, but the second he started to move his Qi into his hair it started growing by itself. Next he thought about changing his hair pigmentation and his hair became a rainbow of color. Turning some, Zhi could see his hair was now down to the middle of his back.

“Great job, now I want you to cycle Qi through your chest area and make yourself some breasts, any size will do.”

Zhi actually pauses at this request and looks down at his current toned muscular chest. He hesitates for over a minute, before a soft hand caresses his face. Zhi looks up and a beautiful woman is standing behind him. Zhi can feel her hot breath on his face, as she leans in close to his ear and whispers. “It’s just a couple of breasts, don’t be afraid.”

Zhi shakes his head and begins to cycle his Qi through his chest area, again there is no issue. It’s almost an automatic process as his firm chest begins to grow out and hang down slightly as it becomes bigger. After a few moments he has a pretty impressive set of breasts now adorning his chest. As they stop growing, two hands wrap around his body from behind to grasp his new body parts. Their touch sends a shiver down his spine as the hands tenderly explore his new breasts. Squeezing, caressing and kneading the mounds of flesh for a few moments. Zhi’s breathing hitches for a moment and then increases as the hands begin to tweek and play with his new slightly bigger nipples.

Zhi is slightly panting as he looks up into the mirrors, the woman behind him smiles and says, “Impressive, looks like you study the material properly and didn’t slack off. Most of my students say they study everything, but then the nerves don’t work right or they can’t properly grow hair. Then I have to make them read everything from the beginning. Now how about we get rid of your little friend who is eager to play and turn you into a proper woman? Just cycle your Qi through the area and imagine you have a vagina instead of your normal equipment.”

Zhi looks down in the mirror for a moment, then begins to cycle his Qi as he thinks about the change he wants to do. It only takes a moment before his package shrinks down and disappears before being replaced with a vagina. As soon as the transformation is finished, one hand leaves his breast and slides down his stomach. Just before it can reach its goal, Zhi grabs the hand and says slightly loud, “No! I think it will be fine, I made sure to study every page of those books.”

The woman behind him pouts at him in the mirror and says, “Are you sure? Just imagine the fun we could have like this.” She uses her free hand to squeeze his breast as she plays with Zhi’s nipple again and begins to nibble lightly on his ear. Zhi almost releases her other hand as his body almost melts under her touch. She breathes softly on his ear and says in a sultry voice, “Just look at your new parts, they are begging to be explored, to be touched, to be licked”

Zhi glances down to see that all her stimulation to his nipple and breast has indeed made him excited enough to have a little bit of liquid begin to run down his inner thigh. He looks back up to see the woman lick her lips and say, “I wonder what you taste like?” Zhi forcefully shoves the woman back from him and imagines his body going back to normal as he cycles his Qi. It takes a few moments but the Qi he used for the transformation changes back into normal Qi and he reverts back to his old self, all male parts and short hair.

He spins on the woman and points at her face as he explodes on her and says, “I SAID NO! That means you need to stop!” He walks over to his clothes as he begins to put them on he says, “Is there anything else I need to know or are we good here?”

The woman actually looks a little shocked at Zhi’s actions, she doesn’t say anything until Zhi is dressed and then just says, “All you need to do is practice until it is second nature. Otherwise we are done here.”

“Good, send me back.”

A moment later Zhi blinks his eyes and he is back in his room at the Hai’s home.

Buddha, I wanna file a complaint.