It has been three weeks by my count not that I had any way of knowing how much time had passed

I had fallen into a respective daily routine waking up,

trying to find my inner self while I wait waited for Pollux

Then it was the educational session with Pollux where I learnt how to revolve the Yin Qi in my body without actually moving it

There were many ways to do it

but my choice was the mountain river method in this one

I had to move the Qi like a river coming down a mountain

Basically, it meant I didn't have to remember the pathway it just forms on its own

Then it was my beat-up session with Julia

Then the cold bath

After that, it was my hang out time with the corpses

Which by the way produces corpse Qi, not Yin Qi as I was so rudely informed by Pollux in our many lessons

Then was my hot bath

Followed by a hellish exercise regime monitored by Pollux

Another cold bath

And then sleep, wake up and repeat

This wasn't the worst part

In my previous life, I had access to the world best cuisines

So obviously I was a top-grade foodie who loved to eat

But here forget about taste there wasn't any food all the gave was a pill

That's it no other substance such as bread, fruits, vegetables were just water and a pill

'A pill a day kept hunger away'

This was my life if hadn't felt the improvement I would tell them to stop a long time ago

I was getting stronger and faster

In the beginning it Julia had one or two hits to knock me out now it took at least ten

During the exercise regime, I was running faster than I ever could I was picking up boulders as large as myself

And right below the middle

of my chest, I felt the Yin qi

It felt like a cool block of ice

And this gave me hope

Hope gave me the desire to get stronger

As I was meditating and trying to find my inner self

I heard footsteps,

I always believed that blind people had a crazy sharp sense of smell, hearing and touch

Well in my case it wasn't like that after I lost my sight my sense just magically become sharp

But I did begin to rely on my other sense and I realised they were already sharp enough I just didn't use them

The footsteps came closer

"Let's go," Pollux said

I got and turned towards where the voice came from and started to walk

Unlike old man Bu, Pollux wouldn't lead me by my hand instead he asked me to follow him

I had to rely on every bit of sense to do that

I had listened very attentively to his footsteps

I had to use my hands to feel the path

And I had to walk briskly

After so long I had finally figured out that we lived in an underworld

The rooms where caves and pathways were tunnels interconnecting these caves

Most of the residents living here were from the western end of the Great heart continent

But I have had zero interaction with anyone other than Pollux, old man Bu, and Julia

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There were other languages here I had heard them but I was only spoken to with one by all three

The footsteps suddenly disappeared which meant Pollux had stopped moving

So naturally, I also came to a halt

"Sit," Pollux said

I sat cross-legged then and there

"Today we won't continue the lesson on the flow of Yin Qi," Pollux said sounding far off

"Instead we will be practising visualisation technique"

"This will allow you to open your third eye or as some may call it the 'Mind's Eye' "

I grew excited at this

The prospect of seeing again was too tempting and exciting for me

Ever since the old man told me

about Mind's eye I wanted to learn it immediately

But it was made abundantly clear very early in my days here that I was in no way in charge

So I had to wait to be patient and now the opportunity was finally here

" The visualization is very simple to imagine a world with you in it" Pollux began to explain

"I don't understand," I asked knowing full it would irritate Pollux

Sure enough, Pollux snorted and a certain kind of pressure suddenly surrounded me causing me pain

Funny how pain works even when you go through intense pain every day you are still not used to it

It will still hurt but learn to live with it

Generally, Pollux's irritation last from anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes

Today it was a few seconds

"Listen well David I will only explain this once," Pollux said in a loud angry voice

" you have to imagine yourself in a world, a world you know so well that when you visualise it you can taste it"

"Then you have to imagine yourself meditating in this world"

" once you can do that, you will find the world is covered in mist"

"Once you can immerse yourself in this most you need to navigate this world and see clearly through the mist which reveals to you your life symbol"

Pollux paused for a second her

"Then you have visualised this symbol right here"

He touched the middle of the forehead just between my eyebrows

" After you can do that you be able to open your mind's eye"

With that Pollux just left

As I heard his fading footsteps I cursed

What the fuck

What kind of bullshit teaching was this

How was I supposed to do all that without any proper instruction

what if I did something wrong wouldn't I just die

I started to breathe heavily as I tried to calm myself

This was too much even for Pollux

But this way too important to me

I had to try this at least once

In my mind, I had no choice

I closed my eyes and started to

think of a place that was so vivid in my mind that I could touch it

After a few minutes, I thought a place

The lake near my father's cabin Quebec Canada

It used to be my favourite spot, after the fiasco with my mother

Dad had brought me and mark on this camping trip

And there I saw this mirror-like lake

I used to sit for hours there doing nothing but gazing at the water

I began to visualise the lake the longer I did that the more vivid the lake became

I started to hear the winds, the resulting of the trees and grass insects chirping, clear sky with no sun and crystal clear lake

I started to feel happy and content as I saw the lake again

But I didn't forget the next step as I started to imagine myself sitting crossed bedside the lake

And this was where I hit a roadblock try as I may I couldn't insert myself in this image

the moment I saw myself the image would collapse

not to mention I was extremely blurry I couldn't make out any detail

I must have tried a hundred times but each I failed

After many tries, I just gave up I decided to just imagine the lake and dwell in that happy and contend feeling

As I was doing suddenly I saw my past self sitting by the lake crossed and his eyes closed.

I focused on him the more I did the clearer he became

Then suddenly I felt myself falling and I woke up

Next to the lake in my past self bodybuilding there

As I tried to look around all I saw was fog heavy dense fog

I suddenly realized I could see again

I jumped up in happiness

Even in the back of my head, I knew that this wasn't real it couldn't stop my happiness

I danced and jumped for a long time before I had my emotions in control

I once again looked around but all I saw was white dense fog

I couldn't further than my hands

I began to walk around to no avail all I saw was a white fog

Understanding that this

wasn't the way to go

I sat down there and started to meditate and enter the meditation state which I understood as the zone

Surprisingly it was easy in this world

Where in reality I had to sit for hours and empty my mind here I was in a zone in seconds

As I sat there meditating I began to see a path

I got up without opening my eyes I followed the path

It steered me to the lake because after some time I felt the ice-cold water touch my boots and sock them

I instinctively knew that I had to dive into the lake and go to the centre

I jumped in the lake this time with my eyes open

Inside the lake, it was completely blue and down below I saw darkness

This darkness sacred me up there was no other place to go

So it started to propel me downward toward the darkness

As I swam down below I could feel the pressure trying to crush

The more I descended the more difficult it became until I had to swim back to the surface

I tried many times to reach the bottom, but each time I failed and it was getting harder Nd harder to continue

I was feeling exhausted, then out of nowhere granny Yu's smiling face appeared in front of me

As I saw that face I felt sad scared and angry really angry

I let the anger take control making me shake with rage

I wasn't going to give when I came this close

I closed my eyes and started to swim downward

I channelled the rage letting the anger drive me down,

every time. I felt pressure I imagined granny's corpse I imagined that smiling flying old man

I saw the blue water start to turn red but I was too focused on reaching the bottom

All I could think was vengeance and retaliation

The deeper I went the angrier I got

I was about to reach the bottom when I was stopped by the memory of my father

The day he told me to forgive my mother

To not let my anger toward her consume me

"Don't let anyone ever control

you son, when you let someone anger you to an extent where you forget everything else it means they control you"

I wasn't going to prevail in this world if all I thought about was vengeance

I calmed myself I doubled my effort to reach the bottom

I wasn't letting go of the anger but won't be controlled by it either

As I reached the bottom the darkness began to fade away revealing a golden circle shinning on the bed of the lake

This must be it I thought

My life symbol, I try to remember every detail of this golden circle

There in the water with all this water pressure crushing me, I visualised this circle right between my eyes

The moment the pressure became so intense that I thought I might die

I woke with a mild burning sensation between my eyes

I tried to visualise the circle and sure enough, I was able to sense my surrounding

This mind's eye was disappointing

This eye allowed to be alright but it wasn't anywhere close to the real deal

Earlier all I could see was pitch black darkness now with the eyes of this mind I still can't see anything but I could sense and make out various shapes around me like the table 100 meters away from

"Congratulation David you have promoted yourself from being completely blind to partially blind," I said to myself

Now I didn't need to walk by touching the ground I consoled myself

As I sat there I learnt that this new ability is only effective to 120-meter radius circle beyond that I couldn't notice anything

I was depressed after creating so much hype for this technique in my thoughts

This was a huge letdown

A sudden thought came into me the spot where the mind's eye is

It is also the spot of a major acupoint the 'third eye'

I jumped up

I had decided to unlock this appoint

I started to run the Yin I according to mountain river flow

And as I gathered the Yin Qi to attack this point I prayed that this would get better results than mind's eye

I attacked the acupoint I felt a cold feeling emerge between my eyes,

It was like a brain freeze, which continued to grow

I felt the resistance faced by the Yin Qi completely fade

I felt excited to see what would happen once I unlocked this appoint

As I waited for a reaction the brain freeze turned into a headache which worsened to a migraine

The pain was getting worse and worse soon all I could feel was the pain

Sweat started to ooze out of my body

This pain became intense it was comparable to the time the Buddhist monk with his bowl sang to me

Worse it continued to grow

Soon I was barely able to move to breathe

Was I going to die I thought as I lay there

As The pain overwhelmed me