Lunar and Solar

At night, around eight o'clock.

It was only around six in the evening that the day's routine training at the training grounds had finally ended.

Basically, every newcomer looked utterly exhausted in both body and mind.

The instructors had trained them to death while strictly adhering to the standards.

So even Ling Wuyuan was somewhat tired.

Even though he had deliberately held some strength in reserve.

It really had been a proper all-day physical training regimen...

More exhausting than hauling bricks for an entire day.

Then.

After he finished dinner and rested for a while, it was now this time.

He first sat by the window and looked at the moon overhead, then slowly let out a long breath.

Constantly adjusting his condition.

Ever since who knew when.

Perhaps out of boredom.

Or perhaps for some other reason.

He liked silently raising his head to gaze at the moon above.

He felt that its bright, pure moonlight could make his heart calmer...

It was a habit he had possessed in his previous life.

And it had been retained in this life as well.

But, honestly.

He felt that the reason he had developed this hobby was probably because he had been too poor.

If, when he had been bored stiff in his previous life, someone had handed him a high-end game console loaded with games, he probably would not have developed this habit—elegantly speaking, it could be called refined; bluntly speaking, it could be called poverty...

The truth of the matter.

Really was saddening~

There was absolutely no aesthetic appeal to it~

Sad~

Still.

Though Ling Wuyuan's moon-viewing habit remained as constant as ever.

The moon itself could not remain as constant as ever.

The moon, the Lunar... in this world, its actual significance was completely different from what it had been in Ling Wuyuan's previous life. At most, only its name and appearance were somewhat similar.

The most direct proof was that this world's moon was no smaller than the sun.

The two were truly things of the same rank!

The sun and the Lunar were both things that never set in this world.

They had endured since antiquity, never changing position!

Since who knew how many years ago, they had always remained at the same location and the same height.

Without the slightest change.

Therefore.

This world had no such sight as the sun setting.

Moreover, in many texts, numerous scholars speculated that the sun and the Lunar were actually some special thing with two sides to one body.

In any case, once the time reached the appropriate point.

The sun would automatically fade away, and the Lunar would appear in that position instead.

Likewise.

The intensity of the light they emitted was also something that changed with time.

It was precisely because of this that, although this world never had natural phenomena such as the sun setting, it still had so-called night and day, as well as the changing of the seasons.

In short, many, many things in this world were completely different from the world of Ling Wuyuan's previous life.

For example, the structure of the human body, the coefficient of gravity, the speed at which sound traveled...

Even whether this world possessed the so-called four fundamental forces of the universe was entirely unknown.

To say nothing of anything else.

At the very least, when Ling Wuyuan had previously tried to make some crude explosives, he had failed completely...

The formula from his previous life.

Simply could not produce so-called black powder in this world.

Originally, he had wanted to make some gunpowder for self-defense~

It probably would not be able to blow up experts.

But being able to deal with some lesser opponents would still be a total bargain.

And what counted as an expert to the current Ling Wuyuan?

For example, this world's tigers.

Honestly.

Those freakish things weighed at least one or two thousand jin, and when they stood upright on their hind legs, they were as tall as one or two stories.

He feared that at minimum, it would take a high-powered anti-materiel sniper rifle to deal with one.

Against flesh, blood, and fur that could casually withstand tens of thousands of jin of force, ordinary handguns were just a sprinkling of water.

But this world's physical laws simply refused to cooperate. They did not recognize the black powder synthesis formula from his previous life, not even acknowledging something that could only deal with lesser opponents...

So Ling Wuyuan's idea could only fall through on the spot.

Although this world had its own local gunpowder formulas, he could not get his hands on such things at all right now. By the time he could.

Presumably, that stuff would no longer be of much use to him anyway.

For a time.

Thinking of all this, Ling Wuyuan's mood grew much calmer.

Sure enough, the path of cultivation was the proper route.

Everything else was mostly bullshit crooked paths and evil tricks~

At this moment.

His heart brimming with lofty ambition, Ling Wuyuan picked up the medicinal brew before him, which had been simmered last night, and drained it in one gulp.

How should he put it?

Fishy, greasy, bitter, astringent... The instant it poured into his throat, Ling Wuyuan felt as though he were chugging high-concentration paste flavored with super-bitter melon. "Disgusting" was far too inadequate a word to describe it. It was not only revolting, but it also clung to his throat—literally doubly difficult to swallow. Even if he could endure the taste, he had to keep working his throat to gulp it down bit by bit.

"Damn it..."

"No wonder the book said it was best to wait until it settled into solid chunks before eating it, otherwise it would be hard to get down..."

"I thought it meant the taste would be awful. Turns out it meant this kind of hard to eat—it just won't go down..."

After forcibly spending several minutes on it.

Ling Wuyuan finally managed to swallow the medicine before him.

Then, very soon, after he adjusted his mindset once more, he gradually felt a stream of heat begin to surge within his body.

This signified that, as the medicine was gradually digested.

Its effects had begun to activate.

The blood within his body began to flow faster...

Sweat slowly emerged, turning into mist that rose from above his head.

It was also at this moment.

With the aid of the medicine's effects, Ling Wuyuan successfully sensed the so-called [Qi and Blood]...

[Qi and Blood] was one of the key factors in cultivation in this world. Sensing and controlling it, then making it circulate through one's body along the appropriate routes, was the foundational requirement for formally cultivating techniques.

However, under normal circumstances, ordinary people simply could not sense the [Qi and Blood] within their bodies, just as people could not sense how the blood inside them flowed.

Even if you knew your blood was flowing through your body, and even knew its actual pattern of circulation, you still could not feel the blood itself.

As for wanting to control how the blood flowed, that was even more a fantasy, the stuff of daydreams.

The difficulty of [sensing Qi and Blood] and [controlling Qi and Blood] was basically the same as [sensing blood] and [controlling blood].

Without the help of medicine, even crossing the first hurdle alone was exceedingly difficult.

If you could not sense anything, what were you supposed to cultivate?

Like a brain-dead vegetable entering a triathlon.

Better wash up and go to sleep early...