267 6.61 Journey To The West Not That JTTW Series...Fuuuh (2/2)
The Immortal said as he describes every one of them, conversing with to us before he materializes from the depths of the monastery, wearing clothing only known to be from The Five Nobles Family.
”I know what you are thinking, Himura. You are right, I am from one of the Five Noble Family and I am the dependent of Sima. The clothing that I wore on me represents my clan with the two white dragons embroidered in front and the two white tigers encircling each other at the back. See, do you like them? It costs me just $15 for the black pants and $45 for the top at Mustafa Plaza.”
The immortal from Sima family showed off his garb to us and we were awed since it was embroidered and not silkscreen or something like that. ”You really got a good bargain at Mustafa Plaza yea?” Hiko-sama praised at the satin finish of the clothes. ”It's the last piece...lucky me to get my hands on it. There's another but it is not my colour...bright fireman red...haiyoo...!” replied the Immortal as both he and Hiko-sama were engaging in small talk.
”Sheesh...these 2 guys have certainly made this chapter out of context about their shopping experiences. Haiyoo...” Izumi lamented to me as we watched the two men discussing where they should go for their next shopping trip and what's there to buy et cetera.
”Alright, Hiko...just give me a ring if you want to get the best deals in town okay? Pity this Himura, he is here to find the answers to his questions that's forming in his head right now and the main question was 'When do I stop talking to you and attend to him next' hahahahaha...” the Immortal just shrugged his shoulders and pointed at me who was squatting on the ground and was using a twig to disturb a nest of black ants in the sand.
”Oi kid...its your turn now.” Hiko-sama was calling out to me and bring me back to reality since I was making the twig like a tree trunk and was forcing the black ants to carry it back to their nest. Hahahaha.
”Oh...its my turn already. Immortal One, I had broken through my bottleneck and a voice boomed in the heavens and informed me that I had reached the 'Humble Master' cultivation level. What does it actually do and represent and how come the rank sounded so 'ordinary' to me.” I asked as I moved away from the angry mob of ants that I had disturbed earlier.
Izumi was giggling at me as some ants managed to crawl up my feet and got into my hakama and I was trying to stomp and scratch to get rid of them.
”That was me, who else can it be who enlightened you to bring about your journey to the west here...? Hahahahaha. I used this megaphone and communicated with you. How else would I be able to achieve this without this megaphone? Hahahaha. By the way, you had meditated so many times and enhanced yourself without knowing and attaining levels and upgraded yourself.”
”Tell me how many times you had meditated in a day to enter the Realm of Mind? How many times do you enter alone or with someone else? How many times have you done your visualisation? How many hours have you stayed inside the Realm of Mind?”
”These are factors that you didn't realise that made you level up every Cheng until you got to this stage? Did you realise that you had reached the maximum level of Cheng and reached a bottleneck thus resulting you to get a blackout? Luckily you didn't die because of your depletion of your Chi.”
”Right now to surpass your 1st Cheng as a Humble Master, you need to enter the Realm of Mind at least 250 times, spend at least 1080 hours in it, visualise at least 450 items and practice your Chi breathing and be one with mother earth for at least 2500 times.”
”Luckily for you, if not for Izumi here...you won't be able to surpass your last level and remained at a vulnerable position that's open to attack. Don't your guardian tell you anything about it? By the way, the transformation of your Kodachi to Dragon Scales used up a lot of your Chi and that's why you fainted some days later.”
I stood there dumbfounded as I realised that I had placed my life in danger without realising it. I listened to the Immortal One and found out that it would be another few months before I could surpass level 1 Cheng of the Humble Master and there's 12 Chengs altogether. Ara ma.....nasi lomak... Hahahaha.