(Precogging) (meditation) (counts) (?) (That) (is) (wonderful)

"Yeah! I still need to work on contacting my brother but it's very cool that I can practice this and precognition at the same time."

(In) (order) (to) (stick) (the) (energy) (to) (you) (to) (form) (a) (core) (it) (is) (useful) (to) (do) (physical) (activity) (at) (the) (same) (time) 

"...huh. What kind?"

(More) (than) (one) (kind) (is) (best) 

(Having) (a) (golden) (core) (enhances) (physical) (abilities) 

(Parts) (of) (the) (body) (that) (have) (more) (energy) (channeled) (through) (them) (are) (improved) (more) 

(We) (do) (handstands) (while) (copying) (sect) (rules) (and) (have) (better) (upper) (body) (strength) (than) (other) (sects) 

He smiles innocently. 

(Jing) (yi) (has) (better) (upper) (body) (strength) (than) (me) 

Jingyi makes a face at him. 

"I'm very clumsy, so I won't be able to do much. I could do situps or something. ..how do you copy rules and do handstands at the same time?"

(You) (stand) (with) (your) (left) (hand)

"I need the cane to walk. I don't think I can do a handstand with both hands, let alone one."

(They) (don't) (make) (small) (children) (do) (it) 

He realizes what he just played, and flusters. 

(Not) (that) (you) (are) (a) (child) (I) (just) (meant) (since) (you) (don't) (have) (a) (golden) (core)

"I get it. What do children do?"

(Running) (laps) (basic) (martial) (arts) (sit) (ups) (push) (ups) (pull) (ups) (leg) (lifts) (squats)

"I can do situps. ...well, I can do crunches and work my way up."

The idea of being unable to do sit ups seems vaguely bewildering to him but he just nods. 

"Uh, when eclipsed first get our powers they're totally out of control, and the state of the art on getting us to the point of not doing things by accident involves spending a couple of years barely moving at all. Plus the clumsiness, which I had anyway. And the desk job. I'm not athletic."

(I) (don't) (really) (have) (a) (good) (idea) (of) (what) (people) (who) (are) (not) (cultivators) (can) (do) 

Small, thoughtful pause

(Except) (that) (farming) (looks) (like) (hard) (work)

"It's better with more technology! How many people are cultivators?"

He looks thoughtful. (Gu) (su) (Lan) (is) (larger) (than) (Yun) (meng) (Jiang) (and) (smaller) (than) (Lan) (ling) (Jin) (I) (do) (not) (know) (how) (big) (Qing) (he) (Nie) (is) (really) (but) (it) (can't) (be) (much) (smaller) (than) (Yun) (meng) (Jiang) (or) (much) (bigger) (than) (Lan) (ling) (Jin) (so) (maybe) (about) (a) (thousand) (between) (the) (Four) (Great) (Sects) (plus) (smaller) (sects) (and) (rogue) (cultivators)

"Rogue cultivators? Are people not supposed to take up meditation if they don't belong to a sect?"

(It) (is) (not) (forbidden) (and) (many) (begin) (as) (members) (of) (sects) (and) (leave) 

(That) (is) (only) (what) (they) (are) (called) 

(It) (is) (safer) (to) (night) (hunt) (if) (you) (have) (backup)

"Doesn't anyone pick it up for reasons other than wanting to go do vigilante superheroics?"

He looks slightly baffled

(Vigilante) (?)

"Sorry, uh, I'm bringing in concepts from fiction in my world because we don't have actual real live monsters and stuff running around. But like, aren't there reasons besides hunting the monsters to want to have superpowers? I predict the future for people who are, say, doing science experiments, or paid an insurance company to tell them if they're going to get in a car crash, or things like that."

He nods. (There) (are) (things) (cultivators) (do) (besides) (night) (hunt) (but) (most) (of) (them) (are) (more) (difficult) (to) (learn) (without) (teachers) (from) (a) (sect) (and) (if) (they) (are) (not) (immediately) (practical) (people) (will) (not) (pay) (for) (them) (anybody) (will) (pay) (to) (have) (the) (thing) (cursing) (their) (livestock) (or) (attacking) (their) (neighbors) (dealt) (with) (and) (if) (you) (do) (not) (have) (a) (sect) (to) (support) (you) (you) (have) (to) (be) (ruthlessly) (practical)

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense with a largely farming-oriented economic base. Way way way fewer people as a percentage of the population are farmers in my world."

Nod. (I) (did) (not) (understand) (most) (of) (your) (examples) (of) (what) (you) (do)