A tall young man was standing in front an ordinary small house in the suburbs of Beijing, the young man was wearing black vest with a white shirt, black trousers and black boots, his slightly long hair and indifferent expression made him look mysterious, this young man is Allen.
After living the apartment, he was renting he came here, no one knows that he bought this small house or why he came here.
Looking at it from the outside it seems that nothing is out of the ordinary but Allen knows that it’s not that simple, six months ago after returning from Antarctica, he bought this house and secretly built an underground shelter with reinforced metallic doors and walls.
Now as to why he built it, it’s very obvious, after knowing that a month from now a great calamity will befall the earth Allen hurriedly took necessary measures to welcome the new age that is arriving.
Now inside the underground ancient cave he couldn’t take the tons and tons of treasure with him, but what can he do with it soon wealth will become nothing but toilet paper, so he only took some of the most precious diamonds and gems with him and sold them secretly, and accumulated millions of dollars.
After experiencing many hurdles around the world, he knew many black markets and sources where he can sell such treasures.
It was hard to bypass some borders and not to be blocked but he still found a way in the end, after that he bought some weapons, many of them are illegal, like AK-47 or berretta handguns, also some custom-made swords and daggers with special alloys and metals.
Then he proceeded to find a quite area where he can build an underground shelter as a base, its not by love that he returned to china, after all he lived all his life in America, China for him is quite strange but why he chose to return was in fact a decision made after careful planning.
First, china is a huge country with many resources and people.
Second, the level 3 cosmic impact will not greatly affect China, and it will leave time for him to better prepare for the upcoming dangers.
Third, here no one knows him he is a complete stranger and it facilitated quite a lot of things he had done.
“Are you the new neighbour?”
An old man came to Allen and greeted him.
“Hello, yes”
Allen wasn’t the type to talk much so his response was somewhat cold, but the old man looked amiable and didn’t take offense.
“It is rare for a young man like you to live in this village, 80% of the young people in the village left to work in the big city”
It’s true, as the cities developed more and more young villagers left in hope to make money and have a better life in the big cities.
Some were successful and developed their wealth and some unfortunately were faced with the harsh reality and intense competition for jobs and returned to honestly farming.
“I like to be quite…I’m not used to crowded and noisy places”
Allen answer was true and false, after the death of his parents, he avoided people and led a solitary life but the true reason was clearly something else.
“Well its true big cities may have many opportunities but the fast-paced life and pollution isn’t really good”
After his brief exchange with the old man Allen entered the house.
It was small about 80 square meters, the furniture was made of ordinary wood and was quite simple, not Tv and electronic devices, pretty primitive if one should say.
Allen opened the bedroom, without wasting time he slightly pushed the simple bed revealing a rectangular iron door embedded on the floor.
Easily opening the door, a staircase appeared leading underground, it was a few tens of meters deep, reaching a wide and large room.
Allen open the light thanks to a switch revealing the appearance of the room.
It was approximatively hundred square matters space with shining reinforced metallic walls, a bed, and a desk was placed in the corner, many training utilities like barbell and bench press and others were scattered around, on the walls there were all sorts of weapons and some pictures that he took from the underground cave.
There is also a lot of fridges containing food and rations , stacks of bottles of mineral water and some clothes.
I don’t know if the ancient advanced cavillation knew of the difficulty of translating their language, they left an algorithm made with numbers and small drawings that can translate these words, for six months all Allen did was trying to translate the engravings left by them.
Allen mastered some basics but it remained difficult to understand many things, but he wasn’t without gain.
A golden box was laying quietly under the desk, compared to everything that Allen took from the underground cave in Antarctica, this box was by far the most important object found.
He had a hard time transporting it to china without attracting many eyes, he spent a lot of money and time.
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Opening the box, three luminous jade like stones were revealed, it was strange material, it looked like it was wrapped with a transparent white light, I’m sure that many scientists would marvel at this completely unknown stone.
Allen knew what it was, this was the energy stone that was drawn on the smooth wall in the cave, this was the stone that was used to practice by the ancient advanced civilisation and the prehistoric civilisation before them.
From translating the inscriptions on the wall about the mysterious stones, he found that it was a set of methods to practice absorbing energy and to strengthen the body.
This was far more important to Allen than other information for the moment, who doesn’t want to become stronger and become the master of his life?
There is one month before the catastrophe happens, Allen decided to concentrate on training and try to absorb energy into his body.
According to the people in ancient civilisation, energy is present all around us in the form of a flow constituted of tiny transparent particles, they also called it “Aura”, this particle is capable of being assimilated into the living body more precisely cells and is able of strengthening every organ and part.
Be it eyes meaning stronger sight, skin meaning hardness, muscles toughness, brain for more clear thinking and speed of computing, nose meaning a more developed smell and many other advantages.
This particle is present in every element of nature, fire, water, earth, wind, thunder, light, darkness, wood ext.
Every single life can absorb these particles, in fact some people are absorbing them without knowledge, take the Buddhist monks for example, meditation is actually an important part of absorbing energy.
True Shaolin monks are so strong because unknowingly they have been absorbing small quantities of energy over time, some famous athletes and strong people in history are in fact also special because they have been assimilating this energy making them out of ordinary in the eyes of normal people.
But the actual ability to feel this special energy is difficult, prehistoric civilisation knew of a way but it was still very difficult to advance forward.
Then came the advanced civilisation, who developed a set of special methods that can allow people to feel and absorb the energy around willingly.
What Allen found is that first, a practitioner needs to reach the state of empty mind and extreme focus and concentration, after that he needs to adopt a comfortable posture and relax all the muscles of his body, the environment must be quite and calm.
The advanced civilisation called the feeling of energy the first transition, it’s the first step of practice and can be extremely difficult depending from person to person, according to information, children are the most apt to reach the first transition.
As the age increases, chances of feeling the energy decreases, but there are also many other factors, for example, athletes and physically strong people have more chances of feeling energy than others.
Allen is an addict of extreme sports, his body and mind have long been tempered and he is still young, one can say that he has all the condition to successfully reach the first transition.
After feeling the energy, the advanced civilisation people developed a set of movements that facilitates and maximizes the absorbing of energy in the body.
But it is only a basic method , Allen noticed that it looked like a set of martial arts , his eyes lit up , along the years humans developed many set of martial arts , it could be the key to a more perfect method , so Allen decided to search for martial arts on the net but it is for a latter time , now his only goal is to reach the firs transition.
Actually, practice can be divided into three major realms, first step is energy reinforcement, second step is storing of energy inside the body and third and last step is controlling the energy outside the body.
These three realms are also divided into 10 levels each, Allen is deeply amazed at what ancient civilisation achieved, imagine people capable of holding object weighting tons or capable of jumping tens of meters in the air, not forgetting the power they could release in wars or battles.
Allen felt extremely sad, in the end such strong humans still were annihilated by the forces of nature and time.
Then he remembered something, the alien ship that was worshipped by the prehistoric civilisation, could the aliens be the ones that transmitted their knowledge of practice and energy to humans?
Allen didn’t know but he felt that is highly possible.
After recollecting all his thoughts , Allen took one of the energy stones and looked at it intently , one of the keys to strengthening and practicing is this mysterious stones , advanced ancient humans called them energy stones , this stone is a special natural composite that stores energy and is extremely rare which is why Allen only found three of them.
According to the inscriptions, energy stones are also a huge key to the ability of feeling energy and can speed the first transition by several times.
Allen is inside an underground room, so the concentration of Aura is close to zero, he wanted to reach the first transition with the help of the energy stone.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Allen concentrated all his mind and tried to relax his body to the maximum of his ability.
1 hour …2 hours …3 hours …
Allen still couldn’t feel anything, but he wasn’t disappointed because he clearly understands that its not an easy hurdle.
The following days Allen mediated every day for three to four hours and the rest of the time he tried to practice martial arts that he searched on the net.
Taekwondo, Judo, boxing, Muay Thai, and many others, he even searched for Chinese martial arts, everybody knows that Chinese history is filled with a diversity martial art.
But true Chinese martial arts are not available on the regular internet, so he tried his chance on the darknet and to his surprise, there was several of them for sale.
Allen wasn’t short for money so he purchased the right to view these mysterious martial arts.
What Taijiquan, Baijiquan, Kung Fu, Wing shun, WuShu … Allen visualized and tried to learn everything like a madman.
Two weeks passed and he still couldn’t feel the energy, Allen finally became anxious, time is limited and there is the tremendous pressure of a catastrophe approaching, he wanted to at least have some power to grantee his safety.
Allen actually knew that the more anxious he feels, the more difficult is to feel the energy, in fact he knew why he couldn’t feel energy, depicted in the inscription one needs to forget all emotions and let go of all complex thoughts and knots and he deep inside still feel the pain of the death of his parents.
Taking a picture from the inner pocket of his vest, there was two kind middle aged people and a six years old child standing between them, all of them had smiles, the woman was beautiful the man was honest and upright, they looked at the adorable child tenderly.
A teardrop fell on the picture, Allen returned the picture inside his pocket and his eyes became firm and sharp.
“Father, mother, your son is strong he will survive and strive for a good life!”
Closing his eyes Allen finally let go of all his emotions and looked peaceful, his mind felt like floating in the sky , beside the empty vast space , nothing could be seen , slowly his perception became extremely sharp, and then strings of transparent light were orbiting and emitted from a round circular object , every cell of his body was screaming and trembling like being hungry wolf attracted by these lights.
Allen could even perceive the tiny particles that were in those groups of lights, he knew what it was.
“Finally!!! I reached the first transition!”
To be continued…