Reincarnated as God - Chapter 41

Chapter 41






After a few hours of uncomfortable sleep, Meng Li was woken up with a groan when he felt someone shake his shoulder . During his sleep, he changed his position many times, but it didn't help - the wooden floor seemed to have impossibly many bumps which dug into his back, his side, anything that touched the floor . Despite sleeping, it wasn't a comfortable sleep in the least .

Meng Li stretched his sore muscles and looked behind him . The entrance to the cart, covered by cape, was behind his back, and stretching the sore muscles created even more pain for his incredibly sore muscles . It turned out that without the support of the pillars and without using his Qi, his muscles weren't any different from a normal person . Well, he may be a bit stronger than a mortal due to the Qi leaking into his flesh, but he still suffered from an uncomfortable bed .

Due to the short time he spent sleeping and his sore muscles, Meng Li had a frown . He was in a bad mood, and ready to leash out on whoever disturbed his painful sleep . Upon turning around, however, he found that the one who woke him up was Ye Jian . Meng Li simply groaned once more and fell to the floor . His long hair was scattered around, and his robes were in a disorder - he looked like a mess .
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"Sigh . . . Brother Meng, could you move? The caravan is returning to the road, we need a place to sit . " He said impatiently . Meng Li didn't reply, but he lifted himself from the ground and sat on one of the boxes containing herbs . He proceeded to clean himself up, which was basically brushing his hair with thin strands of Qi and smoothing out his robes . While he was doing so, Ye Jian and his parents boarded the cart . They too chose a place to sit and sat down, cultivating . Ye Jian cultivated too - he was eager to break through to Qi Sea Realm, though he had a bit to go until the peak of the tenth layer . His parents didn't slack off either - the talent the Green Immortal's Peach gave them was enough to put them just below the geniuses of large clans, and their cultivation growth was extremely fast . They still didn't use all of the Peach's Qi, so they had to hurry and refine it before it dissipated .

Meng Li looked at them with some resentment . How could they have a comfortable bed while he didn't?! However, he calmed down quickly and settled his anger . It stemmed mainly from the fact that he was uncomfortable, and he wanted to be angry at something . He couldn't help but glare at everyone in the cart angrily while he healed his muscles with his Qi . However, he quickly restored his usual calm demeanor and thought a bit about the future .






He would go adventuring with Ye Jian, but there was a big problem at the moment - he needed to break through to the Origin Core Real, or at least his path's equivalent of it . He had branched off from the normal path of Qi cultivation only recently, so there shouldn't be any major changes . However, he had a guess about it, which was the reason he didn't attempt to break through just yet . When he merged the pillars supporting his three Dantians into one, it gave him the ability to use both the power of his soul and his vitality . However, when he used those forces like he used Qi, it had detrimental effects on him - for example, when he used his soul power, he could feel himself growing weaker mentally, and felt as though he was going to faint .

The same applied to his Vitality - although he didn't feel the effects due to the fact that he was young and had a lot of vitality to spare, if he used too much, it would reduce his lifespan . He already had a guess that the cultivation path of those two energies was different from cultivation of Qi - for example, cultivation of vitality might be strengthening of the body, and the soul was training his soul and using it to attack the souls of other people . However, he had absolutely no idea how to do so .

Although when he merged the pillars, the three energies were somehow balanced with each other, he had progressed in the cultivation of Qi from that point . Now, when he looked at the pillar in his lower Dantian, it shone with three different colours of light, but one shone the brightest . The colours were white, blue and green, and the white colour was the strongest, practically as strong as the other two combined . However, the pillar was still holding together - although the energies within it were unstable, it wasn't yet at the point where the instability was so strong it would make the pillar break . Unfortunately, Meng Li had a feeling that if the balance was completely broken, the pillar would break too, and in the best case scenario, he would be back to the starting point - cultivating only his Qi, or in the worst case scenario, which Meng Li felt was the most likely, his cultivation would be crippled and he might die .

As such, Meng Li was very careful when it came to it . He didn't cultivate at all to strengthen his cultivation - for now, he wanted to find a method of cultivating the other two powers, in preparation for breaking through . Meng Li had been putting it off for a long time, and although it wasn't a pressing matter, it should be done sooner than later . As such, when sitting in the rocking cart, he decided that now was as good a time as any other to at least learn what he should do .

<Okay . System, do you have any idea how I could cultivate vitality and soul power?> he asked .

[Vitality no . Soul power - yes . Soul power is cultivated by strengthening the soul . It's a completely different path than Qi cultivation, but a cultivator can cultivate his soul as well as Qi . However, there aren't paths set like in the cultivation of Qi, and thus, finding the correct path is hard . As such, cultivating the soul was always an unorthodox practice . There are, however, some manuals in the summoning tab pertaining to cultivation of the soul . ] when the system replied, it also changed the summoning tab to show some manuals . There were few - less than twenty . As such, Meng Li took time to read all about them in their description before choosing .

There were many paths - they ranged from demonic, like using the souls of others to absorb soul power or using emotions to grow the soul, to more orthodox ones . Meng Li immediately removed the demonic ones which involved hurting other people . He was left with about a dozen, but all of those were viable methods .

Unfortunately, most of the manuals left detailed methods which had some significant downside, so Meng Li also gave up on those . He ended up choosing a manual which described soul cultivation up to a level of power equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm - a soul strong enough to not disperse instantly when it left the body .

It was an orthodox method, or at least orthodox as far as soul cultivation went - in the Qi cultivation world, it was still an incredibly unorthodox art . It was balanced, and the method described could be reliably used to increase the strength of one's soul without any downsides . The one bad thing about it was that it was slow, but Meng Li didn't care . With ten times the lifespan of a normal cultivator, he wasn't worried that he would fail - and he trusted his talent .

When he chose it, he summoned it, but didn't immediately open it . He still wanted to know how he could cultivate Vitality .

<System, what is your best guess for cultivating vitality?> he asked . After all, his cultivation realm was far too low to make guesses about things which were so incredibly important .

[Normally, vitality is increased with consequent breakthroughs . However, there is no reliable way of directly affecting the source of vitality and increasing its' power, or at least master hasn't left one behind . ] the system replied .

<Isn't vitality directly related to someone's lifespan? So how does the nameless technique increase my lifespan?> he asked, confused . However, the system's reply made him extremely confused .





[What nameless technique?] the system asked . Although its' voice was emotionless as usual, Meng Li knew that it wasn't simply joking around . Thus, he retrieved the small booklet containing the nameless technique from his bag of holding .

<This technique . I got it in the control room before I was able to communicate with you directly . > he replied, confused . He started getting a weird feeling about the situation at hand, but he didn't quite know what was the source of said feeling .

[I haven't given you this booklet and neither have you summoned it . Hmm? I can't read the contents . ] the system replied, its' emotionless voice actually breaking character and showing an emotion of surprise . Meng Li's weird feeling grew stronger .

<The effect of this technique is increasing my lifespan by ten times a normal cultivator's at the beginning stages . . . There's higher stages, but they require a much higher cultivation realm . > he replied . He had a guess about the system already, but he wasn't one hundred percent sure about it . . .

[At the beginning, when you were a mortal and cultivating during the Qi Gathering Realm, to me, you simply cultivated until you reached the peak . There wasn't any technique like this on you . ] the system replied, its' voice containing an emotion Meng Li couldn't quite discern .

<How come you haven't seen it? I clearly remember it . Are you not the . . . Highest power here?> Meng Li asked . The answer would either confirm or deny his guess, so he eagerly awaited the system's response .

[I . . . The one communicating with you is the spirit of the system . I can do practically everything, and the only one . . . Thing who can do something like this are the orders master has placed . As such, this booklet was given to you by master, and it's probably not meant for me to see . ] Meng Li could hear some hesitation in the system when it referred to itself as 'I' . So the one he was talking to wasn't an AI chatbot . . . Or it was just a really sophisticated AI chatbot who had control over the system, but couldn't break some order left behind by his master .

<What are the order left behind by master?> he asked .

[I don't have the authority to see them all, but the main one is that I can't kill you or cripple you . However, such a thing can happen in the world . The other one are the tests master has placed - when you reach Nascent Soul, you will have to go down and cultivate from the ground up . ] the system replied . Although to Meng Li, the information wasn't much, he was still relieved that the system couldn't do anything bad to him .

Returning to the booklet, Meng Li was quite confused . Why would master leave behind something so precious and not inform the system of it? And was there a possibility to use the booklet to cultivate Vitality?

Meng Li decided to leave the questions for later . He still had to cultivate his soul, and since the matter wasn't so pressing, he wasn't in a mood to play with his life - he would take care of this at a later date . With peace of mind, Meng Li placed the nameless technique booklet into his bag of holding and took the soul cultivation manual to read . It was simple, but hard at the same time . Or rather, the action he had to perform was simple, but the control required to do it was the hard part .

The manual described absorbing the remnant soul power of dispersed souls and purifying it by circulating it along a special path in the body, then leading it to the upper Dantian and letting his soul absorb it . After an hour, Meng Li was finally able to completely purify and refine his first strand and led it into his upper Dantian . Along the way, he discovered something - when the strand was completely purified and refined, he could leave it in his upper Dantian and it wouldn't disperse! This meant that he could first accumulate a fair amount of soul power, then absorb it all at once . However, Meng Li was in a hurry to absorb that one strand and to check the effects .

To his surprise, the absorption process was extremely pleasant . He could feel his soul growing and his mind getting cleared, even though it was just a tiny amount, it was still pleasurable . However, Meng Li didn't care, and quickly checked his lower Dantian to see the pillar . To his relief, although at first glance, it was the same, as he was immensely familiar with the pillar, he could sense that the blue glow grew imperceptibly - it worked!

Meng Li was happy, and he quickly returned to absorbing and refining more of the remnant soul power in his surroundings .