Early the next morning, Feng Li woke up from his bed and headed directly towards the dining hall for breakfast. When he arrived he found everyone sited at their respective sits looking at him with strange gauzes.
"I say little bro…nowadays you have been acting so differently, you are no longer the lazy boy I knew since you started growing up, huh."
"huh naughty sister…can't you see that I have grown up lately." Feng Li said to his elder sister jokingly.
Ever since Feng Li came to this world, he has been exceedingly satisfied with this elder sister of his. In all his previous lives, Feng Li happened to be the only child in his family. Back on earth, he was the only son of a widow woman. Since the heavens have given him an opportunity of having a sister in this then Feng Li was going to ensure that he grows stronger in order to protect this sister of his.
"Who did you just call naughty, you smelly kiddo?" Feng Xu angrily glared at Feng Li, ready to skin him alive.
"You are the one calling me smelly."
"Yes, because you are a smelly pig boy."
The two siblings continued arguing during all the time causing the ever serious Feng Tian to blossom with a satisfactory smile while looking at his two lovable kids. Very soon the meal session came to an end.
"Feng'er, how are you fairing with your cultivation? You should have already started cultivating now, I guess. Feng Tian looked at Feng Li with a serious expression on his face, also one could see expectation on his cold face.
"Father I think there might be a problem somewhere since I can't even channel spiritual Qi into my body no matter what I try." Feng Li said this with a depressed tone.
After everyone heard this, the whole room was deathly silent as even the sound of a needle falling could be heard. At this time, Feng Tian was silent for a very long period of time. After some time, he raised his head and looked deeply at Feng Li.
"Tomorrow morning, come to the Divine hall for a check-up. All the upper members of the family will gather there to ascertain the cause of your problem." Feng Tian said seriously.
"Ok father I will do as you ask of me." After responding to his father Feng Li left the room and went straight to his courtyard.
After returning to his courtyard, Feng Li was in deep thoughts. One could not figure out what it was exactly he was thinking of. "Could the reason behind my failure to cultivate be due to that?" after thinking for a very long period Feng Li asked out as though talking to someone.
...
Early the next morning at the divine hall, several Feng family figure could be seen sitting in a manner that suggested that something important was being discussed. At the very centre of the hall sat Feng Tian. He had a very complicated expression on his face as he was thinking about many possibilities at this time.
Soon Fu Lin walked into the hall with Feng Li at her side. Many of the elders were looking at them with smiles on their faces. At this time, beside the grand elder sat a young man clad in a red robe who was looking at Feng Li.
When Feng Li met his gaze he sensed a hidden killing intent at very depth of this boy's eyes. Feng Li faintly smile at this as he did not pay any attention to him. After they settled down the hall became silent as everyone was waiting to hear from the patriarch.
"I have gathered all the elders here today so that we can all try to find out what is wrong with Feng'er." Feng Tian slowly said.
All elders […]
"Esteemed patriarch, are we hearing things right…"
"Yes, patriarch, can you please be more frank about what you are trying to tell us…what wrong has Feng Li done?"
All the elders were confused at this moment as they could not think of anything that Feng Li could have done to force all the elders to come forward to solve it as a council. At this moment all the elders were looking at Feng Tian waiting to hear what was wrong to cause all of them to meet so abruptly.
Feng Tian looked at all the elders calmly as his sharp gaze fall on Feng Li, "As we all know that all the youngsters that participated in the talent measuring ceremony have all began their cultivations as we speak."
"That's true."
"That's correct."
Almost all the elders agreed unanimously. As their confusion grew dipper as they were still looking curiously at Feng Li waiting for him to clarify what was happening.
"I know that all of you are confused about this, but I need all of your help to ascertain the reason behind Feng Li's failure to begin cultivating as of yet. He keeps on trying to channel spiritual Qi into his body, but he loses connection with it the moment it enters his body. It's like all the spiritual Qi disappears in emptiness."
Hearing this all the elders were speechless as they were silent not knowing what to respond. The young man sited next the grand elder had a pleasant smile on his face. 'seems like the job was somehow satisfying' the young man thought in his heart.
Let Feng Li sit on the front as we combine our power to examine his flow of Qi as we inject spiritual energy into his body. Soon Feng Li was sited in front of all the elders.
As the elders started channelling energy outside their bodies, the hall was covered with pressure as pure strands of Qi congealed together, forming a spiral of Qi as they flew directly into Feng Li's body. As the energy entered inside his body, Feng Li felt like the energy entering his body was enough to burst his tiny body into countless pieces were it not for the fact that it was being controlled by these old fogies.
As the process continued, one of the elders closed his eyes as his consciousness followed the strand of Qi entering Feng Li's body. Soon, the elder opened his eyes as he breathed out foul air, and a sad expression filled his face.
"Are the heavens punishing us, deliberately taunting our family…" the elder said with a sigh.
"Tell me what could be the problem with my son." Feng Tian said coldly while looking at the elder.
"Reporting to esteemed patriarch, I'm not able to conclude what exactly is wrong, but what I can say from my observation is that, as the Qi flowed into his body, the energy reaches his dantian, but it disappears just around his dantian, but it does not enter his dantian…. It's like the meridians connecting his dantian are all broken or are not there at all. The elder said slowly while sadness succumbed to his face.
Boom!
A frightening aura covered the whole divine hall banging flying one elder who was near Feng Tian. Everyone was scared at this sudden change of events as they all looked at the patriarch with fear on their faces.
"What did you just say?" Feng Tian looked coldly at the elders. "Are you trying to tell me that my son is not and will not be able to cultivate in his lifetime…. This is the biggest joke I have ever heard in my lifetime."
"That is precisely what it is patriach." The grand elder looked at Feng Tian and said slowly.
...…
The news that the Feng family's young master is unable to cultivate due to having broken meridians slowly circulated across all Emerald City like a bomb. This became the talk of every person in the city as the previous genius was nothing but just a genius trash who could not cultivate.