Chapter 6: Terrifying.
As Yin entered the house he could see two, two floor beds, and a table with four chairs further.
Three beds were currently taken as Yin saw three guys sitting in meditative position. One was short and quite chubby with black short hair and blue eyes dressed in blue robe. One was skinny with red hair, brown eyes. And the last was tall and thought looking, with long brown hair reaching his shoulders and blue eyes all of them opened their eyes as they looked at Yin.
“Who are you ?” They all asked simultaneously, absolutely in sync one could see that they were alike. They laughed because of this.
“I am your new roommate Yin, nice to meat you!” Yin said ecstatic, hoping they are good people.
“Hello, I am Jakob” The chubby guy spoke first, with big smile on his face.
“I am Zen nice to meet you.” The skinny guy spoke as he looked at Yin, his face is calm and seemingly unmoving.
“Purk, I am pleased to meet you.” The tall and tough guy stood up seemingly reaching the ceiling at least 2 meters in height.
‘This guy is really huge… I don’t even know how he got to be in this element. He much more suited for earth ahah.’ Yin thought as he remembered their names.
“Hey what rank are you?” Jakob spoke.
Yin was a bit lost he didn’t know he meant by rank
“I am sorry I only just joined here I am clueless about all martial artists or deviners and what not…”
All of them nodded in acknowledgement, this is because every year there would be one or two people joining, from the mortal territory. They themselves were from martial families, but they weren't arrogant towards mortals; after all the legend of this clan the greatest Ice king have come from mortals. Because of this ice element students don’t usually look down on mortals.
“Alright, Brother Jakob will give you some pointers about it then,
Every rank consists of ten levels, one must breakthrough each of them in order to advance to another rank. Ranks are easy to remember they are simply named each after, what you have to do. Rank one is dantian forming this is rank where throughout ten levels you form your dantian. Rank two is dantian shaping, In this rank one makes his dantian sphere almost egg shaped, It is extremely hard to do this and some people are stuck at this stage for the rest of their lives. Rank three is Qi liquefaction rank, this gives major boost in power for the people who pass this. Generally speaking rank two level ten and rank three level one is like comparing earth to heavens. Well that's for now reaching higher levels is really hard and takes decades. For now we only hope to reach rank two which is not so hard compared rank three as the master says, but if you are lucky and put a lot of effort in it you will reach it by your twenties… Well unless you are Ice King haha, Ice Kings are born being rank two, but of course unable to use it. But they say that for Ice King's life is actually not that easy because one's body must be trained way harder. Our master says that ‘Kings are blessed by a curse, but if it's given to the right person he will certainly achieve great things’.”
Yin nodded now in some understanding, he wasn’t afraid of hard path actually he was rather excited. Yin didn’t know if he should keep being an ice king a secret or not, ‘I think keeping it a secret wouldn’t hurt.’
“I see now....” Yin said to Jakob.
“Read the book that the elder gave you, you will learn a lot, we won’t interrupt we go back to gathering energy.” Jacob said, it seemed that he is the friendliest here and likes to speak.
Yin nodded as he got his stuff out of his backpack which is mostly simple clothes. He put his blue uniform on, looking at himself he was rather surprised how comfortable it felt. The cotton jacket and cotton pants, it felt more like heavenly silk and not cotton. Putting the belt with black spheres on and touching it with finger he could feel the inside of the sphere. He was quite surprised that in such small thing can fit two cubic meters of whatever.
Yin took out the book he got from the elder, and made himself comfortable on the second floor of the bed, as on the first floor, Purk was meditating.
Yin started reading the book, emerging himself in the book.
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At the Snow White Peak, In one of the temples building a round table with many elders seated, they were currently engaging in conversation.
“We should get that kid to The Great Dragons Temple, since he is Ice King he is already at the second rank. Who knows maybe a good dragon will choose him.” a bald elder with thick eyebrows said.
“We need to be patient too many things at the same time is not good. Let’s wait a week, he will get comfortable with everything then we will take him there.” Elder with snow white hair which reach his shoulders said.
All the elders nodded in agreement.
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‘So Qi is everywhere! It's just that one cannot see it.’ Yin said to himself.
‘In order to gather Qi one must concentrate, cleanse the mind, and imagine a whirlpool appearing around me! A whirlpool that sucks in Qi. When the whirlpool is made one will be able to see the Qi energy, one must imagine the whirlpool. But the most important thing is belief, one must believe in the King's energy. One has to want the energy, they must want the energy with all their heart.’ As Yin was reading this he was completely immersed in it. He was completely focused on it, seemed that outer world didn’t exist. He had astonished face on him.
‘You must remember that meditation is something that is different for everyone. The way you meditate, the way you pose yourself during meditation will affect the rate of your Qi absorption. It is best to find your own meditation pose, but until then you must gradually do that. With the increase of belief and desire, your cultivation speed will gradually increase.”
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‘Desire?’ Yin thought to himself as he smiled.
Why he smiled? It is because his desire for power is something that no one can match him in. Belief? This not question of belief, Yin himself has world of Ice king Energy in him since the day he was born. If he is not to believe that it actually exists what else can he believe in?
‘But it is not just that. When the whirlpool and the meditation is in place, one must then absorb the actual energy. In human body there is in total fourteen main types of meridians and eight sub-main meridians, each type of meridian has many acupuncture points, which is in total 409, 361 main and 38 sub main meridians. In order for you to absorb King energy one must absorb the Qi energy through all of your 22 meridians leading through 409 acupuncture points, at the same time! If one thinks it’s is easy one will never be able to cultivate.’
“…”
“I have only ever used 106 of those points...and it was extremely hard to find them too, and now I have to use 409 of them at the same time….” Yin thought with extreme smile on his face. Yes! He had smile on his face, ‘It’s hard, it is extremely fucking hard!” Yin started laughing.
Purk, Jakob and Zen opened their eyes looking at Yin, all of them thought that Yin must have went crazy, barely holding their laugh.
“The harder it is the more fun it is!” Yin said, as he closed the book, taking meditative position.
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In a blink of an eye a whole week passed, Inside remote area, blizzards and high peaks from all sides there was a plain small houses, in one seemingly non different from others, house.
A young man of about seventeen years old, his skin is snow white which has become plain and scary too look at, he had bushy eyebrows, and long black hair, which must reach his ankles and green eyes. He was dressed in blue uniform and sweat dripping from his face, he was shaking and he was scarcely skinny, If one went closer to him they could see thin, but dense muscles. It was none other than Yin.
“AAArghh!!!!” Yin shouted, as seemingly invisible ice stream shot from his body. “Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!” He kept swearing as he still in meditative position, his back and head straight, his legs crossed, his hands crossed thumbs pressing against each other two centimeters up his belly. Sweat dripping from his face, his veins pulsing, he seemed in extreme pain, his teeth clenched.
“A week, a whole week he has been sitting in that position! he haven’t moved an inch!” Jakob said looking at Yin in terrifying shock.
“Indeed, it’s incredible I haven’t seen anything like this before.” Purk spoke as he looked at Yin, he could almost feel Yin’s pain himself just from looking at him.
“Alas, he still haven’t been able to cultivate… It took me one week to start cultivating but I barely tried to cultivate for two hours a day as it is extremely exhausting…” But how could he know that for Kings it’s at least five times harder to cultivate and more exhausting.
“This guy is a monster...His talent is seemingly extremely low, but he makes up for it by will power, I don’t understand how it’s possible to cultivate for 168 hours straight...It does not make sense by common logic it should be impossible…” Zen spoke, he was terrified he wasn’t even able to cultivate as he watched Yin, his blood is boiling. ‘Compared to him, my efforts is worth nothing…’ He thought looking at Yin.
‘HAHA! I can feel it one more time, just one more time!’ Yin shouten in his mind he was breathing heavily, an invisible vortex appeared surrounding him as he could now see the Qi energy. With all his will power he pushed the white and black energy entering in his body, through all 22 meridians flowing through all 409 acupuncture points. The white and black energy mixing, flowing in equal laps around each other making Yin and Yang, just when it was about to enter his ice cold planet, one of the streams delayed.
An extreme piercing pain spread out through Yin’s body as he shouted, “One more time!” Starting from the beginning once again, Yin and Yang Qi energy mixing in entering his body.
Suddenly elder full of white hair and very faint white eyebrows, covered in blue robe entered, it was Master Taku.
Purk, Jakob and Zen bowed slightly as they saw elder entering.
Master Taku looked at Yin, his eyes bulging out, “What’s is going ? why is he looking like that ?”
“Master Taku, he has been sitting like this for the past 168 hours trying to cultivate, seemingly his talent is very low, but his will power, his spirit won’t let him give up…” Jacob spoke, as he looked at Yin.
Currently Yin was absolutely focused on cultivation and outside world currently didn’t exist for him, he was in his own small world right now.
“!AAAhh…” Yin suddenly let out another shriek as he felt pain, in his body. He tried to cultivate so many countless times that, his meridians started to burn, and his blood boil. ‘One more time!’ He said to himself, his teeth clenched, breathing heavily, and suddenly a smile started appearing on his face as the Yin and Yang energy started flowing into his small planet transforming into an icy energy filling up his planet. His Ice King Energy, was still in gaseous form seemingly making clouds on the small planet.
Everyone seeing a smile appearing on Yin’s face and his sweat drying, his skin recovering, his natural shine appearing. The three smiled looking at Yin, while Master Taku looked at Yin, like he were to look at a monster.
‘What is this kid?’