A Thousand Li- the First Step by Tao Wong

Author:Tao Wong [Wong, Tao]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989458006
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

When Wu Ying finally consciously opened his eyes, days had passed. Cultivation, true cultivation, always passed in the blink of an eye. For powerful core cultivators and beyond, cultivation could easily take months or years. At that stage, the cultivator was not only processing additional chi but also the insights, the minor moments of enlightenment that the cultivator had accumulated. For those advanced cultivators, the chi they drew in was more than sufficient to sustain their bodies.

Wu Ying was nowhere close to that stage, and by now, his body had processed all the normal stores of energy. If he continued cultivating, he would seriously hamper his body’s healing as it took even more resources from his body, eating away flesh and nerves. For now at least, his body had patched over the majority of his wounds.

“Thank you, Senior, for your earlier help and for letting me stay,” Wu Ying said as he stood. When he finished speaking, Wu Ying bowed low in the direction of the waterfall.

If the senior cultivator had not intervened, Wu Ying would have died for certain. Even then, he almost did. A part of Wu Ying wondered why, but he dismissed the question. Whether it was completely altruistic or there was another reason, Wu Ying would pay the debt when needed.

Having paid observance to formal courtesy, Wu Ying walked farther down the river. During his flight, Wu Ying had lost his pack. His clothes were torn, tattered, and blood-stained. Not that the peasant tunics he wore were a great loss, but without his sect robes that were in his pack, he had nothing to change into. Rather than walk through the woods with blood-stained robes, Wu Ying decided to move downstream before he attempted to wash himself clean. In that way, he would not be disturbing the senior. Or at least, he hoped so.

There was, of course, a certain amount of hesitation in leaving the vicinity of his erstwhile protector. He had no guarantee Ji Ang was not waiting for him to do that very thing. Then again, Wu Ying also dared not stay too long and potentially anger his benefactor. Better to leave and risk being attacked again. Still, Wu Ying cautiously checked the forest edges and the surroundings before he waded into the water to wash and find a meal.

An hour later, Wu Ying had a fire and just under half a dozen fish roasting on sticks. He was looking at the food impatiently, his stomach growling at even the hint of freshly cooked fish. Thankfully, the fish in this particular river were both trusting and nowhere near fast enough to avoid the cultivator. Even so, the light exercise of catching his meal had informed Wu Ying that his wounds were still in need of healing. At least in this life-and-death battle, he had come out ahead.

As fat sizzled and dropped onto the fire once again, Wu Ying lightly poked the edge of the fish with a whittled stick, watching as the wood slipped into the cooked flesh with ease.

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