Stuck in a Chinese novel

Wei Jun was curious whether or not he could control his Qi while it was inside someone else. He grabbed the shoulders of the woman who was trying to contain his explosive Qi and began to feel his own Qi.

He had to close his eyes and enhance his senses to the maximum. As he did, could feel himself entering a space where blue thread-like lines connected by dots, like stars, were moving in order.

In one place, he could see a scorching thread, similar to the blue ones but unlike the blue ones that were calm and serene, the yellow one was erratic and explosive, like it would destroy everything in its way.

Wei Jun didn\'t know in what form he was because all he could do was see and feel. He could see the blue and yellow threads but he couldn\'t feel any connection with the blue threads. With the yellow thread, however, he could feel an overwhelming sense of familiarity.

However, no matter how much he willed that little yellow thread to move, it didn\'t budge from its place. When Wei Jun tried to look around, he couldn\'t look all over the place. But what he could see was a collection of blue threads, surrounding the yellow thread and him.

He knew that they had no effect on him but the yellow thread was slowly snuffing out, like it was thinning out. It was losing its shine and was growing dimmer with every second. The blue threads were growing dimmer too but they didn\'t look like they were going to disappear. The yellow thread on the hand did look like it would disappear any minute.

Wei Jun tried a multitude of things but no matter what he did, whether he willed it to move or tried to supply that little strand of Qi with more of his own, however, no difference took place.

Wei Jun decided to finish this because in the end, he was very new to Qi and he needed to experiment with it again and again to figure out the secrets behind it. He was sure that he wouldn\'t be able to do what the woman was doing. He couldn\'t will his Qi to stop in places because he had tried while trying to imitate the system\'s circulation.

But he was sure, with a little more practice and focus, he wouldn\'t be far away from that stage. Satisfied and seeing there was nothing more to learn, Wei Jun opened his eyes. His eyes felt a little hazy by the change of scenery even though he didn\'t think what he saw was through his eyes.

He couldn\'t explain the phenomenon from earlier but he knew it wasn\'t his physical form wherever he was.

He had a feeling that the system would know but he also had the feeling that it wouldn\'t tell him. Although the system had acted subservient at times, there were times when it didn\'t budge no matter how hard Wei Jun tried.

Deciding to deal with this later, Wei Jun stepped back and began to replenish his Qi. He just found out that his Qi was nearing its end. Turned out that to remain in the place he just was, it would require Qi.

Wei Jun was learning new and interesting things about Qi and he had to admit that it was fun. Wei Jun turned his attention back to the woman while he replenished his Qi. The woman seemed to be trembling but she was also focused on trying to control his Qi inside her.

[Why not strike her now?]

She was as vulnerable as she could be in any situation but Wei Jun wasn\'t taking advantage of that. The system asked because Wei Jun wasn\'t the type to waste opportunities.

\'And kill a perfect opportunity to learn? No thanks.\' Wei Jun had already formulated a few plans regarding the woman before him. All he needed to do was put them together. And the first step of that was to have this woman by her side.

In that short amount of time, when Wei Jun was inside that mysterious space, he had figured out the woman to be quite talented. If she was able to reach that stage with an ordinary cultivation manual, then what if he provided her with a better one in return for her loyalty?

Of course, Wei Jun wasn\'t stupid enough to believe in human loyalty but that didn\'t mean there weren\'t other, more practical means.

Killing her would be a waste, he wanted to use her to her full potential. Fatten her up and then, depending on her usefulness, decide her fate. But one thing was sure, whether she was useful or not, he would still have to fatten her up.

Finally, after about thirty minutes, the woman opened her eyes vigilantly. She had finished whatever she was doing a few minutes ago but she was trying to assess the situation while recuperating some Qi. She wasn\'t internally damaged but her insides sure were burning, and not the good kind of burning.

She felt as if she was wearing a full set of winter clothes in the summer while there were heaters at full setting all around her.

\'What was that? How did he do that?\' She thought. She had never experienced that before. She had never seen someone\'s Qi like that before that. The man\'s Qi before her was scorching hot and threatened to burn her from the inside had she not contained it timely.

But although she managed to contain it, she also ended up exhausting all of her own Qi, making her vulnerable to attacks. However, for some reason, the man hadn\'t attacked her. Even when she finished and replenished some Qi, he let her. He knew what she was doing but he didn\'t interrupt her, he just kept staring at her with a straight gaze with minimal blinking.

"What?" In the end, she had no choice but to begin the conversation so she asked. Wei Jun said with zero emotions for her to pick, "How did you do that?"

While normal people would have asked why she was there and on whose orders was she trying to kill him, Wei Jun asked something else entirely. \'He\'s not normal.\' The woman deduced before she said, "You mean Qi expulsion?"

She understood the young man\'s worry. He was new to cultivation and it was quite an advanced technique that only a few organizations possessed and even they only taught them to their most talented individuals.

"Yes." Wei Jun replied. The woman, on the other hand, had no reason to reply but she thought she might be able to talk her way out of it. "I didn\'t expel your Qi but just kept it in place before it ran out. I cannot do it perfectly like my master yet."

Wei Jun picked up a few details in her explanation. Firstly, it was a technique that was either forbidden or classified. He was leaning toward the second option. And second, her technique wasn\'t perfect. She had yet to master her techniques. \'She\'s still in training.\' Wei Jun thought.

And third detail that he picked up was something the system had said before. That she was using a low-level technique. The system didn\'t say that she was using the cultivation technique commonly known but another low-level technique. But she was using something higher than that.

"The technique that you practice, the cultivation technique, what rank is it?" Wei Jun shot in the dark but he didn\'t expect to hit the bullseye because the woman\'s eyes shot wide open.

"You… how… are you… but it couldn\'t be…" she murmured to herself in shock but she didn\'t say anything properly. Wei Jun waited for her to get over her shock and patiently waited for her to speak. After a while, the woman looked at her and cautiously said, "You… Are you also a disciple of a sect?"

\'Sect?\' That was a term Wei Jun was hearing for the first time. Even in the entire novel that Wei Jun read, there was no mention of anything like a sect. He knew what the word meant, but he didn\'t know what it represented in this world.

Wei Jun didn\'t let any emotion on his face and kept quiet. He kept staring at her in the eyes but he didn\'t say a thing. The woman formulated many scenarios and many theories in her head. She now understood why the Qi of the young man in front of her was so strong, he belonged to a sect.

And not just any low-level sect like hers but a high-level sect that possessed such a high-level cultivation technique.

Wei Jun, on the other hand, could somewhat tell what she was thinking. But that wasn\'t what he was worried about. He needed information and from the looks of it, she knew things. All the more reason to keep her alive for now. However, the problem that plagued him was something else.

\'How will I get it out of her without letting her know she\'s divulging information?\' Wei Jun thought inwardly.

In simpler words, how to get an answer without asking a question. That\'s what Wei Jun was worried about.