By the time Hu Liena woke, four hours had passed.
She opened her eyes and found herself still lying on the same bed, tucked snugly beneath the covers.
The room was quiet, save for the occasional birdsong outside the window.
She braced herself against the edge of the bed and sat up. Her head was still a little foggy, but the information forcibly poured into her sea of consciousness was gradually taking clear shape, like reefs emerging after the tide receded.
She closed her eyes and tried to sort through it.
The Spirit Fox Moonlight Art, Ever-Changing Divine Steps, Dragon Subduing Palm, Plum Blossom Hand... and that complete system concerning the human body's meridians, dantian, and qi sea.
These were entirely different from Martial Soul cultivation, yet they formed a rigorous, vast system of their own.
From sensing qi sense and Dantian Opening to Meridian Clearing and Expansion, Circulating the Heavenly Cycle, and then Refining Qi and Transforming Spirit and refining spirit and returning to the void... every step had detailed methods and pathways, like an unfurled map pointing her toward a path of cultivation she had never seen before.
Hu Liena opened her eyes, an unusual gleam flashing within them.
She settled into a cross-legged position and followed the instructions in her mind, closing her eyes, regulating her breathing, and sinking her attention into her lower abdomen.
At first, there was nothing, but she did not grow impatient. She simply sensed in silence. One breath, two breaths, three breaths... then, suddenly, she felt it.
A faint, delicate thread of warmth circled her dantian like a drifting strand of silk.
Qi sense.
She had actually sensed it so quickly.
Joy surged through Hu Liena's heart, and she almost opened her eyes. But she remembered the knowledge Xiao Yun had imparted