13 A Delightful Day (2/2)
”How much do you sell a jar, if i may ask again?
”Five gold coins.”
”Alright then, i will pay for it. No need to worry yourself to death.”
”Really? You will?”
”Yes i will. Here, have it. Five gold coins as requested.” Haider removed five gold coins from his savings of ten gold coins.
”Than- thank you. Thank you.” He stuttered for words, not quite believing what was happening.
”My name is Klotho. Thank you for this favor. I won't forget this.” He said happily as he hurried off.
”You don't need to worry about that, Klotho.” Haider shouted gently at his back.
It wasn't that easy to make friends and not too hard trying to make friends. As he walked along the major road towards the market, sometimes he would wave or say hello. He delivered the milk to the merchant who paid in gold and he left the market place.
He reached home later in the afternoon feeling satisfied. He had been in a good mood since morning and he had been happy since coming back from the market. His mother and grandparents didn't want to ask him about it, they just went along with it.
He went to the quietly peaceful pond area to train his sword mystical art, the skylight. There were four stages to this technique.
The first one was the sundering heavens.
The second one was the ethereal world.
The third one was the fey radiance.
The fourth one was the skylight.
He was still at the first level of skylight, the sundering heavens. This level involved drawing in the heavenly lights and compressing them to form the golden yellow light. Releasing this golden yellow light will bring the wrath of heavens in the form of rains of golden yellow sword light.
He sat by the pool and was about to close his eyes to meditate with the soul serenity technique when he noticed the movement of the gentle wave ripples on the pond surface caused by a butterfly. Several wavefronts were approaching the stone arc at the edge of the pond, upon reflection off the stone arc at the edge of the pond, the water waves changed direction and headed towards a point. It was as if all the energy being carried by the water waves was converged at a single focal point. After passing through the focal point, the waves spread out through the water.
This was a total comprehensive insight.
He closed his eyes, calmed his mind with soul serenity and started to dwell on the insight from the wave ripples. Two hours later, he had discovered the secret of the sundering heavens.
”YES.” He shouted with his fist in the air.
He went to the training area to test out the sundering heavens. He took one of the bronze sword and performed a little sundering heavens. Golden yellow sword light started falling from the sky like rains, it was really a beautiful scene. He had mastered the first stage of the skylight technique. It was turning out to be a really good day.
His mother who had been watching him came over to congratulate him.
”Congratulations my son. I'm truly proud of you.”
”Thank you mother. After so many years, i finally finished first stage. I still have three more to go.”
His grandparents who were working in the farm also came over to check the situation after seeing golden yellow sword light rains.
”We saw the golden lights that's why we came over. Is everything alright?
”Yes father. Haider was only trying out the first stage of his skylight technique he recently mastered. It's all good.”
”Ah, I guess it is.” Euanthe glanced at her husband smilingly before focusing back on her grandson.
”Congratulations Haider, you deserved it.”
”Thank you grandma.”
”Indeed. You deserved more than a big congratulations, this calls for a celebration, the making of a young man.” Aodh grinned widely.
They celebrated Haider's achievement that evening with a great deal of magical delicacies.
After the celebration, Haider went to the cultivation chamber and started cultivation using astral primal technique. His dantian and meridians had enlarged to their maximum capacity but his dantian had started to go deeper in depth. When he reached the Chi condensing stage, the ocean of Chi would be compressed into a sphere of energy preventing the leakage of Chi energy from the body.
He popped one crystalline into his mouth, cultivated for a time before popping another one into his mouth and continued his cultivation. Nothing better than a good cultivation.
He exited the cultivation chamber and headed towards his room smiling brightly.
”What a great day.”