Jake walked away from the desk and stopped. He did not see Ling Lin on his way out of the library. He decided to head to the pond to clean up again.

When he arrived at the pond, he took off his robe, grabbed some plants off the shore and headed in to wash the gunk off him. He then scraped with some sand and walked out of the pond, feeling much better. He took a new robe out of his ring and put it on.

He sat on the grass to think about the day. He went from not cultivating, to cultivating and being able to fight eight people at the same time. He also was recognized by the first elder and got his first cultivation technique.

It all started after he worked on the black stone. He could still not understand where it had went, it had just disappeared. Could it have something to do with his being able to cultivate? They all said he could not amass qi because of a problem with his dantian, but he could do so now.

He closed his eyes and tried to look closer at his dantian. All he saw was a bundle of glowing qi. He had never seen it before today, so was not sure if everyone’s was the same.

He tried pushing the qi out of his dantian. As he did so, it traveled along six different paths, mainly through his heart, lungs, head and arms. He felt those body parts becoming more powerful. He opened his eyes and he could see further and with more clarity. He punched the ground and made a large crater. He smelt the air and it was fresher then he remembered before. His heart felt stronger in his chest as well. Why does my qi only go to these areas and not the rest of my body, he wondered.

He stood up and still looking inside and threw a punch. As he did so, qi flowed along the pathway to his arm. When he finished the punch, a sound like a loud bang was created and the air in front of his fist was distorted. Ah, so this is what caused the difference in my punches, he thought. The qi caused the punch to be stronger.

He then ran the qi himself even more energetically and then threw another punch. A louder bang was heard and the air was even more distorted.

Now he knew why the disciples had been beaten so badly earlier, it was because of the work of the qi making him stronger. He then threw a kick and noticed no qi flow. Hmm, there are no path through my legs. I wonder how I can make that happen, he thought. He tried pushing the qi in that direction but it was like hitting a stone-wall.

He pulled the sword out of the ring and made a slash while running the qi through his arm. The qi flowed into the sword and made it ring. A lightning bolt flew out of the sword.

So the qi also made the sword throw out bolts of lightning, he thought. I need to think about this further. He sat down in the lotus position and lay the sword across his lap. He then ran his cultivation techniques from earlier. The qi started to flow and he felt gravity becoming heavier around him. He then sunk back into a meditative state.

At that time three wisps of black smoke emerged from his dantian. The first went into his stomach and then into the spleen. It moved through the abdomen and went to the left leg and along the thigh. It then traveled along the inner side of the lower leg, crossed the inner ankle and ran along the foot until reaching the big toe. Once there it reversed course and made a parallel run back, along the foot, up the inner lower leg, along the thigh, through the abdomen, into the spleen, then into his stomach and then back to the dantian. As it made its second run, it was joined by the two streams of data from the Gravity Crushing Technique that he had learned earlier.

The second went into his stomach and then into the spleen. It moved through the abdomen and went to the right leg and along the thigh. It then traveled along the inner side of the lower leg, crossed the inner ankle and ran along the foot until also reaching the big toe. Once there it reversed course and made a parallel run back, along the foot, up the inner lower leg, along the thigh, through the abdomen, into the spleen, then into his stomach and then back to the dantian. As it made its second run, it also was joined by the two streams of data from the Gravity Crushing Technique that he had learned earlier.

The third wisp of smoke went from his dantian to his spleen. It then went through the diaphragm and into the heart. It then ran along the esophagus, it then crossed the face, going through the tongue. It then followed a path back through the esophagus, to the heart, to the diaphragm, then spleen and back to his dantian. After this, the two streams of data and the smoke began to follow this path as well.

All this happened automatically unknown to Jake. He had opened Taiyin Spleen Channel of Foot or Foot's Major Yin Spleen Meridian also known as the Greater Yin.

Countless strands of vital energy began to circulate throughout his body through the new paths. Qi was sucked in through the air around Jake. Vital energy began to stream in and out of his dantian. Meanwhile, that energy entered Jake’s body and began to transform the areas around the meridians.

As the technique circulated energy, was pulled into Jake. As it circulated his body quickly became stronger, his eyes became better, his heart pumped more energetically and with more energy. Sludge was pulled out of his body as impurities was taken out of his body. Now his lower body began to change as well.

Unknown to Jake as he sat there with his eyes closed, his body was changing. If you were there you would hear something like creaking and cracking sounds coming from his body. All of his meridians and the tissues around them were slowly being refined, as was his sea of energy. In fact, as the process continued, they grew stronger than before. It was the force of gravity increasing in the area and compressing his cells. This caused his body to become tougher and also much stronger. He quickly the third and into the fourth level. He had mastered the initial or low stage of the technique already.

At the same time, his cultivation speed increased. His Houtian level increased to level eight. This was not instantaneous but took an hour. Jake was oblivious to what was happening around him, fully into the meditative state. If anyone had walked by, they would had noticed the he had sunk into the ground almost six inches. This was caused as the gravity technique applied pressure to his body. They also would have noticed the air being very turbulent around him as the rate of qi intake caused the air to be disturbed as well.

If they had come closer, they would have smelt a putrid smell as well, and notice that his robe was stained with dirt; the forcing of impurities out of his body caused this.