after the patriarch made the announcement he left and after the hall emptied, it was the servants time to shine

what was on the menu in today's lunch, was a simple dish, some blue rice with shredded meat that got black spots, and no it was not burnt, the thing is like that, along with some veggies, well that was how it looked before, now whats left is around tow spoonfuls of rice and a piece of meat

{the dish: https://d3cizcpymoenau.cloudfront.net/images/23463/SFS_ropa_vieja-56.jpg}

'this look weird... who cares, eat now worry later' the mc thought

after glaring at the other servant threateningly, Arowne took the piece of meat, and the other servant took a little of the rice while the mc licked the plate clean

after that he went to the training field where he will receive the cultivation technique from the instructor

Arowne didn't know much about the cultivation world, the only thing he knew was that there are tow paths of power, the warriors and the magi, most people don't have the qualification to become magi, so most of the cultivation world was populated by the warriors and little was known about magi apart from their powerful spells

'not much is known about the magi, so it is better to focus on what i can do, and that is being a warrior, at least this path is available to me now' he thought

well said(thought), i couldn't put it better, i think that i like this guy, don't you agree with me

*awkward silence*, yeah keep ignoring me you B-t-ches

anyway, back to topic, Arowne arrived to the training field and found that there were people waiting there, few of them were of the morning exercise and the rest were bastards and ordinary family members,

he joined the group of morning exercise and then they waited for the instructor

while waiting arowne thought 'the guy really enjoy making others wait' So! True!

after a few minutes the instructor arrived and he started shouting as usual

"today, we are gathered here cause you were deemed worthy by the family, you will be thought the secret falkirk cultivation technique

but before that what is cultivation, cultivation is discipline, dedication, strength, it all boils down to strength, DDS

in the world that we live in, the strong eats the weak, if you have strength, then you could have everything you want

but how do we gain that strength, our ancestors lived in fear of the beasts, unlike us humans, they were born strong and naturally inclined to the cultivation path

and so as to escape that state, they learned from the beasts, and created cultivation technique, that... was the birth of martial arts

without the sacrifices that our ancestors made, we couldn't have taken a piece of the land that was once and still is populated by those beasts

but even though we humans were not born inclined to cultivation, our bodies have within them treasures to be explored

we cannot absorb the energy of the world like the beasts and plants only magi are exeptions, but with the effort our ancestors put into the cultivation techniques we could use the energy within the food that we eat and cultivate

to start cultivation one has to be aware of the veins inside our bodies, they are the pathways through which nourishment, and the essence of our bodies blood moves" emphasize on the blood word "the journey of cultivation start by controlling that blood, how fast it flows, how much nourishment it can hold, and for that we need breathing exercises,

second step would be training the flesh by straining it as much as possible to build strength, speed, and endurance we do that by following a set of moves that are named routine,

the next step would be to strengthen your health by strengthening your viscera, and that can be accomplished by combining the previous breathing techniques and routine

and finally comes the bone forging, this step is harder to do as the bones are the core of our bodies, without them holding us together, we will not be able to move or speak or anything, the bones can only be strengthened through a combination of external stimulus and internal stimulus, the first is by hitting the body to accumulate kinetic energy and the second is by fist arts that manipulates that kinetic energy and forge the bones, like a blacksmith forges steel

it is here that the journey of warriors begin, once a human made it to his maximum potential, martial arts comes into play, they further stimuli your blood and start condensing what is called the pulse, it is a type of energy that further strengthen the body and and permit a warrior to execute skills like power leap, power punch and power kick to mention a few of the basic ones, and this stage is called pulse condensation

and after that comes the battle qi refinement stage, it is a more powerful type of energy refined from the pulse, it is quite versatile and has more application than the pulse, the falkirk martial arts focus on the sword, so you should expect to form sword qi at this stage

it is to be noted that if pulse is mist, battle qi is water

and then there are the eight gates stage, our clan patriarch is at this stage"

after finishing his long monologue he started demonstrating the cultivation technique from breathing technique to battle qi refinement and he stopped there, he repeated the whole process five times and then started leaving, but one person from the crowd shouted toward the instructor

"instructor aren't you going to teach us how to break through the eight gates"

then he turned around and stood silent for a moment and then replied "the method to break through the eight gates is only known by the patriarch and elder families, as for us servants and the ordinary members, they are not allowed to learn them"

before he turned around to leave again another question was asked

"what stage are you in instructor?"

and he replied proudly

"i am at mid battle qi refinement, few in the empire are at this stage so you could guess how hard it is to reach this stage" and he demonstrated by lunching a sword light at the ground a forming a deep cut on it

and then more questions were asked and the instructor replied before leaving others to practice,

this day marked the beginning of our hero's journey