Reaching the hostel they both got some food in the cafeteria and moved to their respective rooms.
Lu Xiao Tian POV
Reaching his room he locked it behind himself and gave the ladybug sitting on the study table a back rub before moving away towards the washroom to take a bath .
Half an hour later he sat on the mat besides his bed to start cultivating .
'It looks like all the people who started living here were checked not just our rooms . But to think the Awakener's association itself will be mobilised , the person behind the formation master must be a really big personality then , and not just some high ranking official from our country .'
'No for now I should do my best to stay out of their sight , it isn't worthwhile to annoy them just to leave it in the middle when I have to focus on the academy and cultivation '
Shaking his head he calmed his mind and started moving the energy as depicted in the manual .
Collecting all the energy from inside his body and moving it to the the tips of his fingers and then slowly across his stomach to the legs and then finally to the tips of his toes .
Repeating the motion he established a cycle for the energy inside his body to maintain. After his body got used to the motion he expelled all the energy his body had contained outside through slow exhalation. After about 30 minutes , his body looked no different from a normal person who trained their body regularly. He was used to this , expelling all contained energy to hide from people .
But now came the hard part , till now he had just expelled the energy and later let it fill up as was needed , now he had to collect it in the motion he had pre established. Slowly he pictured his body in his mind and formed and open area around it . Now slowly take the energy from that open space through his mouth and move it to the dantian in his lower abdomen. After the energy was settled their carefully distribute it as it moves towards the head the fingers and the toes .
Repeating this motion he added energy to his body slowly . Compared to the speed of expelling the energy this process was about 100x slower . It would take him a few days to bring energy levels to the previous levels he had reached being on the fourth realm .
When he finally opened his eyes dawn was breaking outside the rooms and a few days of sunlight had found their way inside the room through the window .
Stretching his body he got up and freshened up , picking up the storage bags and tying it on his belt , he headed outside the room where he found Hwang Jin waiting for him .
Together they set towards the cafeteria where they greeted all the workers making a show of their presence for everyone present . Taking the breakfast tray they sat at a seat which was visible to almost everyone in the hall . After eating the meal they headed to his room . Putting up the sign for cultivating : don't disturb , they closed the door and locked it , after which they used the window to slip out of the building and left the hostel without being seen .
" Seriously why do we need to sneak around like that , it's not like it's illegal to train outside the hostel training areas ." Hwang Jin whined while walking towards the monster forest qt the western border of the country . It would take them about 2 days to reach their at their current speed .
"It's not illegal but any student who can train in the monster forest will have to face tighter scrunity , and seeing as we have no backing we might be even treated as spies and risk loosing our licenses . " Lu Xiao Tian retorted while keeping an eye out for any officers patrolling the area .
"Did you manage to correct the energy flow in your body , or do you still need time ?" He asked Hwang Jin who was slumping as he walked .
"I did I did , you seriously nag to much Tian -ge . I seriously don't understand why we had to put up that farce either way , it's not like we could not have obtained the manual earlier , but no we just had to wait till after the ceremony." Hwang Jin grumbled with a pout on his face .
"While showing of is good showing of too much will only get you in trouble Ah Jin . We already shocked many people by being able to cultivate at all , if the teachers or the formation master had noticed that we had used the perfect method as well he would have been shocked on how two kids who should not even be allowed to access the manuals somehow followed the method perfectly as written there . " Saying this Lu Xiao Tian made a signal for Hwang Jin to stay quiet as the next moment a officer appea6in front of them .