Chapter 540 - Both Are Taking Advantage (1/2)

Chapter 540 Both Are Taking Advantage

One could not feel the energy unless it was really close.

Roland had always thought that the special invisible energy could only be generated on special occasions, such as in ancestral halls and temples.

After all, the first time Roland encountered the energy, it was when the ritual to pay respect to ancestors was over.

First impression was very important. It was understandable that he reached such a conclusion.

However, the one-year search afterward made him begin to question the conclusion, until he saw the same energy ma.s.ses again.

Also, there were plenty of such ma.s.ses, which were drifting in and out of the hall in the courtyard.

Roland was instantly dazed.

Noticing his anomaly, the old man looked back and saw his hall. He asked weirdly, “What are you looking at? Is there something wrong with my ancestors’ paintings?”

“No, I just feel that the atmosphere here is different from other places. It’s very special,” replied Roland awkwardly.

Out of his expectation, the old man grew excited after hearing that from Roland. “You can tell that?”

“That’s what I’ve felt.”

“Come on in!” The old man grew even more interested and held Roland’s hand, leading him to the hall. “You seem very perceptive. I like to communicate with sophisticated young men like you the most.”

He dragged Roland to the hall in the courtyard.

Generally speaking, the hall was the place where the ancestors were enshrined during festivals, and where the guests were received on other occasions.

Of course, different places had different customs. People in other places might live in other ways. There were a few wooden chairs, and three apparently worn-out rocking chairs. The old man sat down first and pointed at a rocking chair near him warmly. “Take a seat. You probably didn’t know this, but this courtyard was built by me and my father from scratch. It took us a lot of time.” Roland looked around. Trying not to look at the energy b.a.l.l.s that were flying around him, he asked in surprise, “You built the courtyard on your own? It’s made of green bricks!”

The old man was rather proud. “We kilned the bricks on our own. My father was a mason. He knew bricks very well.”

“Impressive!” said Roland in admiration. This quadrangle courtyard was clearly old. The old bricks all had a long history.

It couldn’t have been easy to kiln bricks decades earlier, not to mention building such a big courtyard with only two men.

“Tell me what’s impressive about this courtyard.” The old man slightly leaned forward. “I want to hear it.”

Was it some sort of test?

Roland only considered for two seconds, before he came up with a theory.

Recently, he had found that he was thinking much faster in reality.

“I’ll leave aside the advantages that this place is warm in winter and cool in summer. Even an ordinary person can feel that.” Roland smiled.

The old man picked up a fan and waved it softly. “Then what’s its advantage that ordinary people can’t feel?”

Roland kept his eyes half open. “Qi. I’ve sensed very feeble qi in this place.”

The old man’s eyes widened. “Stop talking about qi. It’s not scientific at all but pure nonsense.”

“That’s not nonsense, it’s exactly what I’m feeling.” Roland stared the old man in the eyes without giving in. “I don’t feel a lot of it, but it’s there.”

The two of them stared at each other for a while, and the old man laughed. “You’re right. There’s indeed qi in this place.” “You can feel it too?”

Roland looked at the old man in surprise. He wondered if the old man could sense the energy b.a.l.l.s like he could.

The old man shook his head. “I can’t.”

Roland frowned. “Then how did you…”

“But it can’t stop me from reaching a conclusion.”

The old man stood up and walked to the front of a thick wooden chair.

He lifted his right hand and smashed it down heavily.

After a crack, the wooden chair was broken into halves.

The sharp fractured wood on the chair told everybody that it was a real chair, not a prop.

Then, the old man showed his right hand to Roland. There was not even a bruise on it.

“Ever since I moved here, I’ve never had any bottlenecks during my practices.” The old man chuckled. “I’ve never been sick either, not even with the slightest cold.”

Roland thought for a moment. “You practice martial arts. It’s not surprising that you’re healthy and strong. It can’t prove anything.” “Then have you seen anyone who can be as skilled at martial arts as me?”

While talking, the old man punched and broke apart one of the two parts of the chair on the floor yet again.

Roland raised his eyebrows.

He walked aside and stomped on the other broken chair heavily.

It was broken too!

However, the long chair was truly of a high quality. Roland’s foot was numb even though it was broken.