13: Chapter 13 The Beginning of Instruction, Initial Practice of Spiritual Power

The Human Race's cave was dirty and messy, with skeletal remains and excrement everywhere.

Perhaps stemming from reptilian instinct, there was a clear stream inside this cave that pooled into a pond, where the members of the Human Race played and drank.

Aside from this Yuanjiao Lizard, the Human Race had never eaten cooked food, normally crawling on the ground and tearing at raw meat like wild beasts.

Without fire, at night they would simply pile some branches and leaves to block the cave entrance to prevent attacks from wild beasts, trembling amidst the roars of giant beasts. After all, compared to the giant beasts outside, they were far from strong.

The creatures of the Age of Giant Insects all possessed spiritual energy to some degree.

The ancestors of the Human Race could be considered the Roaring Dragon, the Six-Clawed Dragon, and the White Fish.

The Roaring Dragon absorbed wind-attribute spiritual energy and could launch sonic attacks.

The Six-Clawed Dragon had weak spiritual energy used for physical reinforcement, of varying attributes.

The White Fish also had weak light-attribute spiritual energy, but it basically provided no boost to combat power.

As one can imagine, for the Human Race who inherited the abilities of all three, life was truly not easy.

For Zhao Feng, improving the current survival capability of the Human Race was the most important. For a creator, this was actually not too difficult.

The difficulty lay in the fact that the Human Race was hard to communicate with. He couldn't possibly pat every single human's head to educate them.

Language and writing education was the current top priority. He hadn't expected that after coming to this place, he would have to pick up the teacher's mantle again.

So for the next few days, he would send the Flying Flood Dragon to hunt for the Human Race. The Human Race wouldn't have to do anything but learn to speak and read.

Zhao Feng arranged for the Flying Flood Dragon to hunt in the coming days, and under the sunlight, he began using small pebbles to draw Chinese Pinyin on a large, exposed rock. To learn to speak, using Chinese Pinyin would definitely not go wrong.

When the sun hung high, Zhao Feng arranged for the leader of the Human Race to bring everyone to the large rock in front of the cave, preparing to start teaching.

Zhao Feng first used sensory communication to make the Human Race listen to him and read along with him.

With his attribute as the Mother of the Planet, this was naturally not difficult, but the subsequent training left him completely at a loss.

Zhao Feng pointed his finger at the first pinyin on the stone and read aloud: 'A (a)!'

'Woo!' the Human Race cried out in an uneven chorus.

'A (a)!'

'Woo!'

...

'O (o)!'

'Woo!'

...

This was bad! This was truly a problem! Zhao Feng suddenly remembered something. He quickly opened the System panel.

Host: Zhao Feng

Strength: Mortal

Abilities: Primary Steel Body (0.1%), Gale Blade Technique.

Divine Weapon: Spirit Blade Slash

Owned Planet: Taichu Star (Spiritual Energy) (D-grade) (planet tree: None)

Modification Points: 3,204,174 points

Mysterious Power: Mother of the Planet (Immune to attacks from native planetary life, can communicate with native planetary life.)

System Abilities: Time Adjustment (Can only be used on owned planets.)

Ability Creation (Create various biological skills.)

Biological Synthesis (Can synthesize various organisms.)

Eye of Monitoring (Monitor the planet, only applicable on owned planets.)

Infinite Space (Can store matter and life.)

Ability Borrowing (Can consume Modification Points to borrow the abilities of native planetary life.)

Special Attribute: Life Sharing (The host's life is connected to the planet and planetary organisms; as long as the planet does not die, the host will not perish.)

Special Creations: Rock-Eating Bacteria, Energy-Eating Bacteria, Balloon Algae, Evolutionary Spirit, Thunder Flying Flood Dragon, Human Race.

The System listed all the creatures Zhao Feng had created using special abilities separately, and among them was the Human Race.

Focusing his mind on the Human Race, all the information about the Human Race indeed appeared.

Among this, Zhao Feng discovered the secret of why the Human Race could not speak.

Although the Human Race had vocal organs and tongues, they were not very flexible.

They had never experienced such varied ways of vocalization; neither their bodies nor their brains could adapt yet.

Fortunately, they were not completely without vocal organs as Zhao Feng had imagined, and with the existence of the evolutionary field, the Human Race would definitely be able to vocalize normally after a long period of training.

The entire morning was spent in 'woo-woo' sounds. Originally, Zhao Feng had planned to teach them a few simple words, but seeing the state of the Human Race, it seemed impossible in the short term.

However, at this time, Zhao Feng had at least escaped his loneliness, and there was someone to listen to him speak.

At noon, the Flying Flood Dragon caught a huge crab. The Human Race was naturally amazed once again. Although it was only their second time seeing the Thunder Flying Flood Dragon, they were still in awe of it, and they respected Zhao Feng, who could command the Flying Flood Dragon, even more.

Zhao Feng was certainly unwilling to eat raw meat, even though he wasn't afraid of the microorganisms on Taichu Star.

He consumed a portion of Modification Points to borrow the ability of a type of Magma Worm, using gathered firewood to start a large bonfire, and then roasted the crab meat.

The giant crab was not something Zhao Feng could handle on his own. Even though he possessed the Primary Steel Body, his lethality against Taichu Star creatures was still very weak.

Without using Modification Points to borrow power, he was considered a powerhouse compared to humans, but to Taichu Star creatures, he was nothing. Thus, he was dripping with sweat and only managed to break off a few pieces, which wasn't even enough for himself to eat.

It seemed he had to find an opportunity to research how to become stronger.

Fortunately, several clever members of the Human Race understood Zhao Feng's meaning and helped him out immensely with their sharp claws.

The Human Race clearly didn't have much interest in the dark roasted meat before them. It lacked the delicious scent of blood, possessing only some strange odors.

However, Zhao Feng seemed to have read in some book before that eating cooked food would promote brain development and evolution.

Therefore, he forced the Human Race to start eating cooked food, regardless of whether they thought it tasted good.

It was another afternoon of boring teaching and a dinner that the Human Race was gradually learning to accept.

As the blazing sun set, the Human Race, tired after a long day, gradually returned to the cave.

Zhao Feng was also exhausted, his mouth dry and parched.

Currently, there was no decent place to stay, so he could only squeeze into the cave with the Human Race. Once the Human Race became easier to communicate with in a few days, he would definitely build a proper house to live in.

Although the night was boring, Zhao Feng was someone who had been bored for hundreds of millions of years, so he didn't feel it that intensely.

However, thinking about how his body was still very weak these days—aside from looking cool when borrowing abilities—and that without those borrowed abilities, he couldn't even beat the weakest giant insect with just his Steel Body.

If the System disappeared one day, what would he do?

Taichu Star was a place with spiritual energy, though the spiritual energy here might be different from that in myths.

But it could still evolve the body and grant various powers. In that case, would the Qigong and such from his previous life also work?

No sooner said than done. Zhao Feng had the Thunder Flying Flood Dragon act as his Protector, guarding nearby to avoid being disturbed by the Human Race. He began recalling various Qigong methods that circulated online in his past life and started experimenting with them one by one.

First, let's try the True Qi Circulation Method. The True Qi Circulation Method was a simple Cultivation Technique that was quite popular online. It was relatively quick to experiment with. Zhao Feng had practiced it for so long in his previous life to no avail, so he didn't know if it would work now.

Zhao Feng simply sat in a half-lotus position, pressed his tongue to his upper palate, closed his eyes slightly, placed his hands in the 'Heaven, Earth, and Man' posture in front of his Dantian, and then loosely focused his awareness on his Shanzhong.

Although he only had the mindset of giving it a try, his long-term habit of practicing Qigong allowed him to quickly calm down, his mind becoming perfectly clear and his breathing turning faint and imperceptible.

Before long, he suddenly felt a warm current slowly flow from his throat toward his Shanzhong. He ignored the warm current, keeping his focus maintained on his Shanzhong.

After a long time like this, when he felt his concentration starting to slip, he stopped the True Qi Circulation Method.

Next was the Nine Palaces Visualization Method.

The Nine Palaces Visualization Method was a Cultivation Technique that relied on visualization to train the Upper Dantian. It could make a person smarter, grant them special abilities, or unlock the Heavenly Eye, among other things.

Of course, Zhao Feng had practiced it many times before, but aside from feeling more energetic, it had no effect.

The 'Huangting' says: 'The ultimate Dao is not complicated, the secret lies in preserving the truth; the Niwan and all hundred joints have their own spirits.'

The Upper Dantian is one inch and two fen in diameter, with a hollow acupoint called the 'Niwan Palace', which is the dwelling place of the spirit. The acupoint is located at the Yintang Acupoint (Shangen) right between the eyebrows, three inches deep into the center.

One inch inside the Shangen is the 'Mingtang Palace', two inches inside is the 'Dongfang Palace', one inch further inside from the Niwan Palace is the 'Liuzhu Palace', and two inches inside is the 'Yudi Palace'.

One inch above the Yudi Palace, forming the upper vertex of an isosceles triangle with the Liuzhu Palace, is the 'Taihuang Palace'. The triangular vertex between the Liuzhu Palace and the Niwan Palace is the 'Xuandan Palace'. The triangular vertex between the Niwan Palace and the Dongfang Palace is the 'Jizhen Palace'. The triangular vertex between the Dongfang Palace and the Mingtang Palace is the 'Tianting Palace'.

Each palace is one inch and two fen in diameter, so every two palaces have a two-inch overlap, precisely forming a Taiji diagram, with the two palaces acting as the Yin and Yang eyes of the yin-yang fish. The mnemonic says: 'Nine rotations in a continuous chain, one Qi without end, mysterious mechanisms and profound scenery, carrying and transforming into the Golden Core.'

Zhao Feng loosely concentrated his awareness on the Nine Palaces, breathing nine times for each palace. After doing this for nine consecutive rounds, he finally lay down, preparing to sleep.

The night passed amidst various chaotic noises from the Human Race. For the Human Race, after eating and drinking their fill, there was nothing else to do, so of course they could only engage in the activity of making babies.

Although the leader monopolized most of the prime females, the remaining average-looking females were still highly sought after, and several male humans even came to blows over them.

Fortunately, the rising and falling noises only started after he finished practicing. Before that, with the deterrent presence of the Flying Flood Dragon, the Human Race didn't dare to make any noise.

But once Zhao Feng lifted the silence ban, the cave began to get lively.

Heavens! It seemed the first thing he needed to do was get himself a house. Otherwise, listening to the intimate sounds of the Human Race, Zhao Feng would definitely suffer Qi Deviation.

Early the next morning, the Human Race was all woken up by Zhao Feng and began to toil for his peaceful life.

He needed a large amount of stones and timber. Since there were no tools like saws or axes, there was naturally no way to process the wood, so he planned to build a simple shelter for himself.

Watching the busy crowd head into the mountains to gather Materials under the protection of the Flying Flood Dragon, Zhao Feng couldn't help but feel a bit excited. He was finally about to have a home.