Chapter 11 - 7: Uncle Biao’s Meditation Room

Chapter 11: Chapter 7: Uncle Biao’s Meditation RoomUncle Biao’s meditation room was located in an old office building in the old town district. There were at least seven or eight meditation rooms like his in the building. After all, cultivation was still a popular industry in this era. Despite the high barriers to entry, parents were eager for their children to be cultivation prodigies who could amaze the world and become envied by all. Where there is demand, there is a market. Meditation rooms bloomed everywhere in this era. As long as you had some professional knowledge of cultivation, or even just a start, you could open a workshop to teach students and make money. Some even became personal trainers. Many unexpected professions have sprung up around cultivation, and most of them are quite profitable. Uncle Biao wasn’t very good at business; his meditation room was always struggling. But today, when Li Yi arrived, he found the classroom inside was packed with students—the business was surprisingly booming, which puzzled him. As he drew closer, he heard a teacher’s voice coming from inside the meditation room. Moreover, the voice was that of a woman, not Uncle Biao. "Before you can truly embark on the path of cultivation, you need to understand what cultivation is. What are the most basic principles of cultivation? Why was our world mockingly referred to as the End of Dharma by many netizens a decade ago, a time when not a single cultivator could be found anywhere in the world and all countries could only develop technology—but now, cultivation has become very common?" "Teacher Lin, I know this one—it’s because our world’s Spiritual Energy revived after the Sky Tipping event," an attentive student immediately responded. The young woman known as Teacher Lin spoke in a serious and earnest tone, "A revival of Spiritual Energy? That’s just a meme at best. While it might explain a thing or two, it doesn’t touch on the root cause. Do you know what a revival of Spiritual Energy is?" "This, this... I’m not so sure," the student’s voice faltered. "Before explaining the revival of Spiritual Energy, we must first understand our world, even our galaxy. As everyone knows, our planet orbits and spins around the sun, thus creating the succession of the seasons, day and night. From another perspective, however, it is the sun that is dragging our planet through space at a velocity of 790,000 kilometers per hour." "Energy exists in the universe, but Cosmic Energy is not present everywhere. When the sun takes our planet into areas where Cosmic Energy is scarce, our world can’t be nourished by Cosmic Energy, leading to what is called the End of Dharma. Conversely, if the sun brings our planet to a place abundant with Cosmic Energy, all living beings on our planet will be nourished by this energy, resulting in what you call a revival of Spiritual Energy." "Spiritual Energy is a type of Cosmic Energy." "The Sky Tipping event ten years ago marked our world’s official entrance into a grand Cosmic Energy Field, resulting in anomalies. My teacher said that in a massive Cosmic Energy Field, space gets distorted, wormholes open, and two extremely distant planets may briefly come into contact. Wormholes might even reveal parallel worlds." "Some of the special events happening in the world now, like ghosts, Mysterious Objects, and the appearance of Extraordinary Creatures, are actually things from the Otherworld that have come to our world. The reason we find many of these things incomprehensible and difficult to deal with is that cultivation has only just started in our world, whereas the concept of cultivation may have been prevalent for hundreds, even thousands, of years in parallel worlds." "Therefore, our foundation in cultivation is extremely shallow." "But don’t be discouraged because of this. I believe most people here have a talent for cultivation; you just lack the opportunity to cultivate. As long as you join Uncle Biao’s Meditation Room, I’m confident your future will be boundless." "Today, Uncle Biao’s Meditation Room has a special promo—no need for twenty-eight thousand, not even eighteen thousand, just nine thousand eight hundred. And for the first ten new members, I will also throw in a free private lesson." At that point, Teacher Lin immediately shifted her tone, stopping the lesson and starting to promote. Li Yi, listening from outside the door, felt his knowledge expanding rapidly. He began to understand some things about cultivation, regretting that Teacher Lin didn’t continue the lesson. If he had the money, he too would have liked to sign up for a membership and attend classes to learn. But this Teacher Lin was indeed very professional, and even now, many students were starting to pay. "Heh, heh heh," a voice suddenly laughed with excitement behind Li Yi. It was a middle-aged man, nearly forty, with unremarkable looks and a somewhat balding head, but he seemed quite spirited. "I knew they would cough up the money obediently. It wasn’t in vain that I went through so much trouble to get my niece to come and teach. Li Yi, what brings you to Uncle’s meditation room today? Are you facing some difficulties at home? Don’t worry. Uncle made a good sum today; just tell me if you need help." With a grand gesture, Uncle Biao’s spirits soared. "I haven’t encountered any difficulties; lately, I’ve just been curious about cultivation, so I wanted to come to Uncle Biao to learn more," Li Yi replied. He didn’t want to trouble others with his family’s matters because help from others might be forthcoming once, but what about a second, third, or tenth time?