Quantum Cultivation: A Xianxia Cyberpunk Standalone Novel by Jace Kang

Author:Jace Kang [Kang, Jace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B088KMMFMC
Publisher: Dragonstone Press
Published: 2021-05-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19:

The Purebred

K en had always resented the XHumans, but he’d never been jealous of one…until now.

Already, Aya was able to execute the techniques of Yang Family Taiji with minimal practice. She looked perfect in the way she could imitate Master Ryu’s movements, and even apply them to fighting the Tofu-Kozo.

Ken had had to work so much longer and harder to get the motions of Xingyi Fist to even an acceptable level.

Then, Ryusuke had given Aya the creature’s Core, and after a night’s meditation her breathing had already improved.

He looked at her now, as they climbed the path in the Ginkakuji compound into the hills. Well, her breathing still wasn’t that good, the way that she panted. Still, she had only had to cough once.

After a few minutes, they entered woods. Never before had Ken seen so many trees. Siena frolicked among them, hand brushing through overhanging limbs, occasionally hugging a trunk.

“You’d think she’d never seen a tree before,” Aya said.

Ken chuckled. Aya was turning out to be quite funny.

Siena looked over her shoulder and pouted. “My homeworld is full of them, but these! I haven’t seen them in centuries! So much color!”

Ken and Aya exchanged glances.

“The trunks are brown and the leaves are green,” Ken said.

“Oh no, there are far more colors than that.” Siena danced around a tree. “Your human eyes just can’t distinguish all the shades.”

“We can rest now.” Master Ryu gestured for them to sit. “I don’t see any human tracks, so I don’t think anyone comes up here.”

Aya nodded. “My logs of Peacekeeper activity show nothing in this area for the last several weeks.”

The master’s expression brightened. “Are you able to hack back into Peacekeeper EtherSpace again? I need my pills if I am to complete my mission.”

“No.” Aya shook her head. “They’ve ended the lockdown, but they’re burning a lot of energy to run Level Six countermeasures. I’d have to spend some time probing their defenses and practicing evading high-level Sentinels in a simulation. It would take me weeks of training. The good thing is, government chatter says your pills haven’t left Kyoto Peacekeeper Central.”

“Chatter?” Ryu asked.

“I have hacker friends, and one monitors unsecured talk among government officials. There’s plenty of speculation about what the pills do.”

None of it made any sense to Ken, but the longer Master Ryu stayed in this world, the more time there’d be to learn Cultivation.

“At the rate portals are opening,” Master Ryu said, “we don’t have weeks.”

Did that mean he’d assail Peacekeeper Central soon? Would that be the end of Ken’s training?

“As I said before, if you get me to a hub inside the building, behind their countermeasures, I can physically jack in.”

Master Ryu peered through the trunks in the direction of Kyoto Central, then took a deep breath.

“Wait,” Ken said. “You were able to get us out of the building with your hacking.”

“By taking control of their cameras and projectors to hide the real you and create fake images. I won’t be able to do that until you get me to that hub.

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