Legend of the Heavenly Swordsman
Ch.4 - Cultivator Level

Two weeks had passed, Fu Chen would often commute back and forth transporting water from the river to his home as a form of exercise. Fu Chen would usually perform simple movements like a sword person using a broom.

This morning Fu Chen. Sin Lou and Fu Mei had gathered in the square near the Village Chief's residence. They were still waiting for the presence of the swordsman from the Sacred Sword Sect who would convey about the level of dantian quality. There are also quite a lot of residents who come together, either out of curiosity or just talk about their respective neighbors.

Before long they waited for the swordsman to finally come along with the Village Chief, they immediately climbed the stage that had been provided.

The Swordsman introduced himself as Xiao Jung, one of the Noble Families in the Song Empire. Xiao Jung later said his strength was now at the level of a fighting general and was one of the core disciples in the Sacred Sword sect. Xiao Jung went on to explain about the cultivation level so that the villagers would not be confused by his words.

Xiao Jung said if the cultivation level has seven levels in starting from the weakest there is, then,

Class 3 fighter

Class 2 fighter

Class 1 fighter

Combat general

Swordsman King

Milky Way Swordsman

Sacred Swordsman

From each level also has three stages which are divided into early stage, intermediate stage and final stage.

The amount of qi energy that the dantian holds will affect every level of cultivation. In addition to being able to ascend to the level of a warrior King, cultivators had to be able to purify most of the sum-sum as well as open up some of their meridians.

Meridians are a network of qi energy pathways that are scattered throughout the body. The human body generally has nine large meridian points as well as three thousand six hundred small Meridian points.

The nine points of Meridians on the human body will open up by itself if the person often practices and performs activities that require considerable energy.

As for the three thousand six hundred little meridians points should require an outside boost as well as qi energy to open them. And the position of the small meridians in each person also varies, so it is very rare for a swordsman to open more than twenty percent of all the meridians.

The warriors should at least be able to do the forging of their bones back as well as do the cleansing of blood to become a Swordsman. This will affect the flow of qi in the body, as well as the body's resistance in accommodating qi energy in greater quantities.

Cleansing the blood itself is useful for cleaning up toxins and impurities from the resources they absorb.

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Xiao Jung took a short pause to re-collect the air in his lungs before returning to continue the speech.

Dantian also has a level of quality each. The higher the quality of one's dantian, the higher the chance of becoming a great swordsman in the future.

Dantian quality is generally divided into seven levels.

Starting from the weakest Dantian is a common white dantian possessed by ordinary people. This dantian will not be able to accommodate qi because it is too fragile. If one were to force oneself to place qi in it, then the dantian would crack and eventually break which would result in paralysis in the person.

Then the next Dantian quality starting from the weakest is yellow, green, blue, purple, red, then the highest is gold.

The dantian will be said to be strong or fragile depending on the concentration of the color of the Dantian, the more concentrated the color of the dantian, the higher the quality in each class.

Xiao Jung also reminded to prepare mentally and physically the participants who want to join the formation of the Dantian later. This is needed so that participants who want to form dantiannya can withstand the heat energy that will enter their bodies.

He also explained that the Holy Sword Sect would only accept disciples aged eight to ten years, as well as the Dantian formation that would be done two weeks from now.

Feeling that it was enough to give an explanation, Xiao Jung finally resigned. The announcement was then closed by the Village Chief and left a look of disappointment because of the age restriction rules applied. But not a few also felt happy because his son or maybe himself had a greater chance of becoming a disciple of the Sacred Sword Sect.

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Two weeks had passed since Xiao Jung's arrival that day, Fu Chen's activities were still the same as the previous two weeks. And today is the moment that is awaited by those who want to form their dantian.

Somewhere not far from the Falling Star Village. There was already a stadium that had previously been prepared for the selection of new disciples of the Sacred Sword Sect. The stadium audience bench has been occupied by many residents, some of them also use this to sell there.

The stadium was not fully finished, even some of the audience roof is still not installed. This is reasonable, because the manufacture itself was only one month ago.

In the middle of the arena itself had prepared several tables and chairs for the sect elders who helped the registrants to form their dantian.

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When the day had gone by, the stadium was much more crowded than before. But the seats there are not fully filled because the size of the stadium is made larger in order to accommodate the audience from outside the village.

Shortly afterwards the representatives of the Sacred Sword Sect along with the Village Chief came out from one of the rooms among the rows of spectators. The four of them immediately broke away and headed towards the arena.

The representatives of the Sacred Sword sect present were four Elders as well as a Core Disciple, each of them had possessed strength at the level of a Swordsman King, respectively, while the Core disciple himself was at the level of the Combat General.

This is done so that the Dantian formation process that requires a lot of qi can run smoothly.

Fu Chen and Sin Lou with their families had just arrived when the elders of the Sacred Sword Skete had occupied their respective positions. Sin Lou looked very happy, even several times he cheered happily in the audience.

Fu Chen who was beside him could only cover his ears and occasionally scold Sin Lou so as not to be too noisy.

After feeling everything was ready, the core disciple who was none other than Xiao Jung got up from his seat and stepped forward. Xiao Jung reaffirmed that the selection later could only be followed by children aged eight to ten years, it also applies to the formation of dantian which will soon begin.

In the selection later not only the strength to be measured, but also the ability to read and write. It is aimed to help them if chosen to become the disciple of the Sacred Sword Sect in the future.

Participants who will be accepted are also only those who have yellow or better Dantian quality.

"Hope guardians or parents whose children are chosen to teach them to read and write in these remaining one-year brackets. So that when the day of selection arrives, they can compete fairly…"

After giving a speech at length, Xiao Jung directed the children who would form the Dantian to go down to the arena and approach the two Elders who were in charge of registering the participants.

After Xiao Jung ended his sentence, many of the children immediately lined up neatly in front of the two Elders who were already waiting.

Sin Lou was also very excited, but his steps came to a halt when he saw Fu Chen who looked down lethargic with a face full of disappointment.