Chapter 66 Going up the Mountain (2/2)

Three days and three nights passed and Shen Lian did not see anyone else.

A normal person would be proud of himself and gloat about his achievements. However, Shen Lian was not arrogant, as he knew his true capabilities and limits.

The top of the mountain was not exactly the most comfortable place. The mist from the heavenly pool was freezing. Shen Lian had to resist it with his inner Qi.

Even though he had unblocked his Eight Extraordinary Meridians and had great circulation, being deprived of food for three days had a huge negative impact on his inner Qi.

He could only take in bits of vital Qi from the heaven and earth, yet it was not sufficient to cover for what he expended. In fact, he might as well have stayed on Wenxin Road. His Qi expenditure would have been lesser there.

He tried to question the two old men, but they did not answer him. He was not sure how long more he had to wait.

Besides the path leading up to the mountain, Wenxin Road, there were no other paths. The place was surrounded by a heavenly moat and there was no escaping.

Unless Shen Lian knew how to fly.

Moreover, the heavenly wind blew fiercely. Shen Lian did not dare to have an astral projection as he did not want his spirit and soul to be blown into bits.

The wait itself was not torturing. It was the endless wait that was torturing.

This was a kind of trial that could make the best of the heroes despair.

Shen Lian was a human with a heart and emotions. The intense despair kept him at the edge of insanity.

However, his rational mind told him not to go berserk and that he should stay calm.

He had fire2 within his chest, but his head was clear and cool.

He knew that he was at the edge of psychosis, and he almost went back onto Wenxin Road. However, something that told him that if he were to leave now, he would lose all affinity to Celestialism. On the other hand, a rational analysis told him that Qing Xuan was not the only Celestial school in the world.

Shen Lian quietly watched as the two old men carried on with the chess game. No one knew that underneath his calm appearance, he was about to go berserk.

Shen Lian diverted his attention to the chessboard. Both of the old men would take a long time contemplating before making a move.

He was not particularly good at chess, but he could still tell what was going on - the blacks and the whites were on equal footing.

It was a complex game, one move would affect another. This was more complex than the flow of Qi for any Qigong practices.

Shen Lian did not speak. He directed all of his attention to the chessboard.

On the chessboard, the pieces were getting lesser. As they approached the closing stage, it was hard to tell who was winning.

However, Shen Lian noticed that when he looked at a certain chess piece, one of his acupoints would pound fiercely.

Sometimes it was the blacks, sometimes the whites.

As he connected the blacks with the whites, the acupoints on his body would be connected to each other, creating a flow.

There were countless acupoints in the human body, and most of them did not have a known function.

He correlated the chess pieces to the acupoints on his body, and out of the three hundred over acupoints, almost more than a hundred of them had been connected. The impulsive Qi energy in him was calmed, and the anger welling up in him gradually extinguished.

Then, he realized that behind this game, it contained instruction for the flow of Qi for Qigong practice.

Unfortunately, before the game was finished, the elderly in red disrupted the chess board with a wave of his hand.

”You were about to lose, what is this about?” the elderly in gray cursed.

”The three seeds from this batch are here, we should report to the headmaster now.” The elderly in red smiled and was unconcerned by the other elderly's displease.

The elderly in gray looked to his side. There was a scholar and a weak young lad behind Shen Lian indeed.

All the others on the Wenxin Road had been eliminated. It was hard to tell if another seven people would come up.This sentence seems to be out of nowhere. We just translated as per raw. .__.A Chinese way to express the 'burning ambition'.