As Bastian was the young master of a wealthy family clan, his daily responsibilities typically started with a structured routine, reflecting social norms and traditional customs. Bastian was woken up early in the morning, often by one of his female family members or by the rise of the sun. After waking up, Bastian kissed every delicious woman in his bed on the lips, and for this, he stated that it was a routine.
Bastian performed his morning ablutions, which included washing his face and hands and rinsing his mouth. As he stated, personal hygiene was important, and he bathed daily. He usually started to exercise by stretching and warming up, and after that, he kept practicing his "Tai Chi Chuan" even before breakfast.
Tai Chi Chuan, in his previous life, helped him a lot, and Bastian liked it a lot. Tai Chi, commonly known as such, is a "Chinese" martial art practiced with slow movements and in silence, providing the movement of body energy and stimulating body awareness, concentration, and tranquility. Tai Chi is also known as meditation in motion and is widely performed both as a self-defense sport, and for therapeutic purposes, as its exercises bring benefits such as correcting posture, balance, and strength, harmonizing emotions, and fighting mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression.
He studied its roots in his previous life and as everything he liked, he made it profound. Translated from Chinese as: "Supreme Ridge Hand Combat Technique" or "Supreme Ridge Boxing".
Tai means "the greatest", "the highest", "supreme", and "absolute"; Chi means the highest part of the roof - "ridge" and Chuan means Fist, symbolizing "punch", "fight hands-free" (unarmed), "boxing".
As he started to study it deeply, he noticed that there were many forms of tai chi, with your hands-free or with weapons such as a sword, fan, or saber.
As Bastian had Traditional tastes, he chose the oldest style: Wu Tai Chi Chuan. As he had already learned "kendo" in his youth, he chose a sword as a weapon to carry on his waist, but on his hands was always a "fan". Practicing Tai Chi with smooth, cyclical, fluid Movements required full mental attention, and should be controlled by the center of the body (region from the top of the thighs to the height of the navel), and the sequences of movements in Tai Chi Chuan were called "forms". In the Wu Style, the forms were composed of 108 movements, all of them mastered skillfully by Bastian.
In Tai Chi, the movements could be mostly slow for practice purposes and body enhancement, or fast and explosive when fighting, known as "fa jin".
However, Tai Chi was born as a highly refined martial art for wealthy people from the aristocracy, taught by its founder's own family. Tai Chi was the only martial art that was created to preserve the health of the practitioner while preparing for combat with very high skills, and in that position was Bastian, now a young master from a wealthy and distinct family clan, and as he used to giggle and say:
- Hi! Hi! I practice Tai Chi because it suits me like a glove made of silk.
For health purposing exercises also brought a lot of benefits as Increasing vitality enhancing endurance bringing more disposition and energy for the day-to-day: Strengthening the muscles; Improving balance; Increasing concentration; Decreasing muscle tension; Improving the flexibility of the joints; Relieving stress and Fighting depression; Balancing emotions; Stimulating the Tendons and Immune system.
Bastian also liked it because it could be practiced by anyone, not only by martial artists, and it was recommended to use soft shoes and comfortable clothes that would not hinder the performance of the movements. It could also be practiced in any location, but preferably outdoors.
The practice with the combination of movements aimed to promote the circulation of the body's vital energy or “Internal Energy”. These movements should be performed fluidly and in a state of mindfulness. Thus, the practice involved the combination of breathing, martial arts movements such as punches and kicks, and the concentration of the mind. So, as he noticed it was better to practice this martial art alone in silence very early in the morning, and after that he was hungry.
As Bastian loved to eat, now as a young master of a wealthy family clan, he could eat as he wished but to resume the day he had light breakfasts, which usually consisted of some ham or grilled meat, rice, “miso” soup, and pickled vegetables. Meals were typically simple and flavor-focused on seasonal ingredients.
As he also had some family clan obligations he participated, in the morning prayers and rituals, according to his family's beliefs, usually performed in the ancestral family shrine, sometimes chanting the sutras.
Bastian, as an important member of a wealthy family, the elders had asked the young master to receive a formal education, which stunned the elders with his already advanced knowledge in etiquette, reading, writing, and arithmetic. After some time, the family elders and his mother understood that he had taken his education path seriously and left it in his own hands. As she heard from the elders and saw with her own eyes, her son was reading and studying seriously by himself as well as with his instructors in martial arts and other skills deemed important for his social status. Bastian kept changing his routine to better suit, for example, his early physical exercises, which he engaged in earlier in the morning, even before breakfast, because he used this time to practice his "Tai Chi".
As he was trying to raise his martial cultivation, he took the physical exercises seriously and usually took some days under the "time acceleration array", where in 6 hours he could get the benefits of a full year of hard training. Still, the aftereffect would be the sensation of a full year without sex, but when he finished, he looked after his women to have sex. The shake-shake-ah-ah sessions with increased body enhancement and endurance usually led to unconscious women lying on the floor.
While Bastian trained his body, he usually trained using internal energy to complement the enhancement of his skin, muscles, bones, and internal organs using the advanced techniques he had acquired in the Abode’s library, and through these methods, Bastian could refine his body, reaching higher results and improving his mastery in energy control by balancing and harmonizing the body's energy systems to improve and unlock hidden potential, which was also needed for his magic spells.
The changes were visible to the naked eye, and his levels of martial cultivation reached a breakthrough to Guru Level in no time, leaving the family clan elders stunned. He chose not to stop there…because he wanted to raise the level of all of his cultivation paths to equilibrium to ease his paths when he would merge when breaking into godhood.
As Bastian needed to consolidate his cultivation level, he required the most important of all resources: time. For him "time" was not difficult, and talking with the Vessel Spirit he understood that he needed the energy to fuel the "Arrays", and the most common source of concentrated energy in this lower world is the Magic Core. It is easier to get the magic cores from Magic Beasts, so he wanted to start hunting magic beasts.
Not only to gather their cores for the arrays but they could also be used to accelerate the cultivation. Thinking obviously of his women, the other important aspect of his hunting was the training that the constant fights helped him improve in his skills and techniques in real combat, which also got his women's interest.
And there lay a huge problem: Julya did not want to authorize Bastian to go on hunting trips, of course, the last one made her a widow, and she almost lost a son in the process. She was deeply traumatized, and Bastian had trouble working on that. With some information from his predecessor's "memories", an idea popped into his mind, and by dinner time, he asked Julya:
- Mother, I need to go hunting for the Magic Beasts, as I need their Magic Cores. You can come as well. We will not go too far! In the north Mountains, we have the Blizzard Wolves to hunt for. Making puppy eyes and pouting he asked again:
- Ple-Please!! Tuning his ears, he could hear some gulping sounds from everyone on the table and he placed both elbows on the table, resting his chin upon his crossed fingers he looked deep into Julya’s eyes and continued:
- I am doing it for Mom, too! Discovering the power of pouting lips and puppy eyes, he heard her sight deeply and answered:
- All right, But the Army men come with us! Bastian stood up, kissed her cherry lips, and said:
- Everything my gorgeous mother says is in order!
- Giddy tongue! Giggling Julya granted his wish, and they went hunting some Magic Beasts, the Blizzard Wolves on the Mountain north of the Village, and to keep the rhythm, sometimes he took some of his “disciples” to hunt and train in the forest not too far from the Village while hunting magic beasts.
What noticeably brought even more recognition from the elders for the efforts made on behalf of their family clan was that he also started to bring magic cores to the family vault, but he delighted in some night activities that were not rejected at all, mainly with his youngest disciples, the intense Samantha, and the shy Samira.
Back home between a hunt and another, Bastian kept his routines, training his Tai Chi and consolidating the foundation for his Guru Level of cultivation while digesting the struggles of the exhausting combats with the beasts.
Now he aimed to improve his Magic with lots of energy provided by the Magic cores, and also sustain his Magic training when he noticed the very truth in his eyes: it was the difficulty of achieving improvements in his Magic cultivation, and worse, maintaining improvements on all three of them was almost impossible.
After breakfast, he practiced his martial arts techniques, and after lunch, he used to participate in other family clan activities. Bastian’s physical fitness and stamina were very high, and many young men from the family clan were not able to exercise by his side. As a way to release his stress and energy, he also performed some chores, such as tending to the family's garden or assisting with other tasks around the house.
As Bastian was the young master of a wealthy family clan, his daily responsibilities typically started with a structured routine, reflecting social norms and traditional customs. Bastian was woken up early in the morning, often by one of his female family members or by the rise of the sun. After waking up, Bastian kissed every delicious woman in his bed on the lips, and for this, he stated that it was a routine.
Bastian performed his morning ablutions, which included washing his face and hands and rinsing his mouth. As he stated, personal hygiene was important, and he bathed daily. He usually started to exercise by stretching and warming up, and after that, he kept practicing his "Tai Chi Chuan" even before breakfast.
Tai Chi Chuan, in his previous life, helped him a lot, and Bastian liked it a lot. Tai Chi, commonly known as such, is a "Chinese" martial art practiced with slow movements and in silence, providing the movement of body energy and stimulating body awareness, concentration, and tranquility. Tai Chi is also known as meditation in motion and is widely performed both as a self-defense sport, and for therapeutic purposes, as its exercises bring benefits such as correcting posture, balance, and strength, harmonizing emotions, and fighting mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression.
He studied its roots in his previous life and as everything he liked, he made it profound. Translated from Chinese as: "Supreme Ridge Hand Combat Technique" or "Supreme Ridge Boxing".
Tai means "the greatest", "the highest", "supreme", and "absolute"; Chi means the highest part of the roof - "ridge" and Chuan means Fist, symbolizing "punch", "fight hands-free" (unarmed), "boxing".
As he started to study it deeply, he noticed that there were many forms of tai chi, with your hands-free or with weapons such as a sword, fan, or saber.
As Bastian had Traditional tastes, he chose the oldest style: Wu Tai Chi Chuan. As he had already learned "kendo" in his youth, he chose a sword as a weapon to carry on his waist, but on his hands was always a "fan". Practicing Tai Chi with smooth, cyclical, fluid Movements required full mental attention, and should be controlled by the center of the body (region from the top of the thighs to the height of the navel), and the sequences of movements in Tai Chi Chuan were called "forms". In the Wu Style, the forms were composed of 108 movements, all of them mastered skillfully by Bastian.
In Tai Chi, the movements could be mostly slow for practice purposes and body enhancement, or fast and explosive when fighting, known as "fa jin".
However, Tai Chi was born as a highly refined martial art for wealthy people from the aristocracy, taught by its founder's own family. Tai Chi was the only martial art that was created to preserve the health of the practitioner while preparing for combat with very high skills, and in that position was Bastian, now a young master from a wealthy and distinct family clan, and as he used to giggle and say:
- Hi! Hi! I practice Tai Chi because it suits me like a glove made of silk.
For health purposing exercises also brought a lot of benefits as Increasing vitality enhancing endurance bringing more disposition and energy for the day-to-day: Strengthening the muscles; Improving balance; Increasing concentration; Decreasing muscle tension; Improving the flexibility of the joints; Relieving stress and Fighting depression; Balancing emotions; Stimulating the Tendons and Immune system.
Bastian also liked it because it could be practiced by anyone, not only by martial artists, and it was recommended to use soft shoes and comfortable clothes that would not hinder the performance of the movements. It could also be practiced in any location, but preferably outdoors.
The practice with the combination of movements aimed to promote the circulation of the body's vital energy or “Internal Energy”. These movements should be performed fluidly and in a state of mindfulness. Thus, the practice involved the combination of breathing, martial arts movements such as punches and kicks, and the concentration of the mind. So, as he noticed it was better to practice this martial art alone in silence very early in the morning, and after that he was hungry.
As Bastian loved to eat, now as a young master of a wealthy family clan, he could eat as he wished but to resume the day he had light breakfasts, which usually consisted of some ham or grilled meat, rice, “miso” soup, and pickled vegetables. Meals were typically simple and flavor-focused on seasonal ingredients.
As he also had some family clan obligations he participated, in the morning prayers and rituals, according to his family's beliefs, usually performed in the ancestral family shrine, sometimes chanting the sutras.
Bastian, as an important member of a wealthy family, the elders had asked the young master to receive a formal education, which stunned the elders with his already advanced knowledge in etiquette, reading, writing, and arithmetic. After some time, the family elders and his mother understood that he had taken his education path seriously and left it in his own hands. As she heard from the elders and saw with her own eyes, her son was reading and studying seriously by himself as well as with his instructors in martial arts and other skills deemed important for his social status. Bastian kept changing his routine to better suit, for example, his early physical exercises, which he engaged in earlier in the morning, even before breakfast, because he used this time to practice his "Tai Chi".
As he was trying to raise his martial cultivation, he took the physical exercises seriously and usually took some days under the "time acceleration array", where in 6 hours he could get the benefits of a full year of hard training. Still, the aftereffect would be the sensation of a full year without sex, but when he finished, he looked after his women to have sex. The shake-shake-ah-ah sessions with increased body enhancement and endurance usually led to unconscious women lying on the floor.
While Bastian trained his body, he usually trained using internal energy to complement the enhancement of his skin, muscles, bones, and internal organs using the advanced techniques he had acquired in the Abode’s library, and through these methods, Bastian could refine his body, reaching higher results and improving his mastery in energy control by balancing and harmonizing the body's energy systems to improve and unlock hidden potential, which was also needed for his magic spells.
The changes were visible to the naked eye, and his levels of martial cultivation reached a breakthrough to Guru Level in no time, leaving the family clan elders stunned. He chose not to stop there…because he wanted to raise the level of all of his cultivation paths to equilibrium to ease his paths when he would merge when breaking into godhood.
As Bastian needed to consolidate his cultivation level, he required the most important of all resources: time. For him "time" was not difficult, and talking with the Vessel Spirit he understood that he needed the energy to fuel the "Arrays", and the most common source of concentrated energy in this lower world is the Magic Core. It is easier to get the magic cores from Magic Beasts, so he wanted to start hunting magic beasts.
Not only to gather their cores for the arrays but they could also be used to accelerate the cultivation. Thinking obviously of his women, the other important aspect of his hunting was the training that the constant fights helped him improve in his skills and techniques in real combat, which also got his women's interest.
And there lay a huge problem: Julya did not want to authorize Bastian to go on hunting trips, of course, the last one made her a widow, and she almost lost a son in the process. She was deeply traumatized, and Bastian had trouble working on that. With some information from his predecessor's "memories", an idea popped into his mind, and by dinner time, he asked Julya:
- Mother, I need to go hunting for the Magic Beasts, as I need their Magic Cores. You can come as well. We will not go too far! In the north Mountains, we have the Blizzard Wolves to hunt for. Making puppy eyes and pouting he asked again:
- Ple-Please!! Tuning his ears, he could hear some gulping sounds from everyone on the table and he placed both elbows on the table, resting his chin upon his crossed fingers he looked deep into Julya’s eyes and continued:
- I am doing it for Mom, too! Discovering the power of pouting lips and puppy eyes, he heard her sight deeply and answered:
- All right, But the Army men come with us! Bastian stood up, kissed her cherry lips, and said:
- Everything my gorgeous mother says is in order!
- Giddy tongue! Giggling Julya granted his wish, and they went hunting some Magic Beasts, the Blizzard Wolves on the Mountain north of the Village, and to keep the rhythm, sometimes he took some of his “disciples” to hunt and train in the forest not too far from the Village while hunting magic beasts.
What noticeably brought even more recognition from the elders for the efforts made on behalf of their family clan was that he also started to bring magic cores to the family vault, but he delighted in some night activities that were not rejected at all, mainly with his youngest disciples, the intense Samantha, and the shy Samira.
Back home between a hunt and another, Bastian kept his routines, training his Tai Chi and consolidating the foundation for his Guru Level of cultivation while digesting the struggles of the exhausting combats with the beasts.
Now he aimed to improve his Magic with lots of energy provided by the Magic cores, and also sustain his Magic training when he noticed the very truth in his eyes: it was the difficulty of achieving improvements in his Magic cultivation, and worse, maintaining improvements on all three of them was almost impossible.
After breakfast, he practiced his martial arts techniques, and after lunch, he used to participate in other family clan activities. Bastian’s physical fitness and stamina were very high, and many young men from the family clan were not able to exercise by his side. As a way to release his stress and energy, he also performed some chores, such as tending to the family's garden or assisting with other tasks around the house.
