Vol 3 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Book 3, Chapter 2 – Co ‘The Way’ by the Pond
Ji Ning, relying on his ‘one with the world’ footwork technique, ran at high speed, as fast as the wind After leaving East h theto a halt Actually, by now, the Golden Crow [the Sun] had already completely sunk beneath the horizon However, the eastern horizon was still very red, and there was still soround
“Whew!” Ning wiped the sweat from his forehead
“I first ran three hundred kilometers on water, then another thousand kilo at my maximum speed I’ve never run like this before I didn’t expect that even with a body likeusually could run for a thousand kilo at all, but this time, he really had moved at his utmost speed
Feeling exhausted, Ning sloalked forward There was a pool in front of hi lotus flowers The floere not stained at all by the rance of the lotuses entered his nose, causing the exhausted Ning to let out a hint of a smile as he sat down next to the pool
“I guess Iwithdrew a bamboo reed with a flip of his hand The reed was filled with clean water Raising his head, he took two gulps
“I wonder how the little green snake is doing” Ning sighed lightly “Little green snake, don’t blame me I’m not able to help you either Alas, I haven’t reached the Xiantian level”
“Xiantian!”
Just thinking about thisfeel a hint of worry
The [Criram of the Nine Heavens], as theit was siround found it so hard to breakthrough ‘Merge Yin and Yang, Fuse Fire and Water’ Hoas this accomplished?
“What do I need to do in order to break through?” Ning pondered bitterly
Hu!
A gentle breeze blew by The cool, suh the lotus flowers in the pool Some spun in place, first towards one direction, then towards the other
Having reached the ‘one with the world’ level in the [Shadewind Steps], Ning naturally was able to mentally become one with the wind When the wind blew past the lotus blossom, he could clearly sense…
“Huh?” Ning suddenly revealed a look of curiosity “When the wind blows the lotus, it turns both left, then right!”
Ning suddenly felt as though he understood so
“If a leaf is blown by the wind, it will be bloildly without any rhythm at all!”
“If it was a s blon by the wind, it would only shake froht! That’s because it doesn’t have any enormous round leaves”
But when the lotus flower is blown upon, the petals of the lotus can turn left or turn right, cancelling out this force”
Raising his head, Ning stared at the sky It wasn’t completely dark yet, but in the skies, he could already faintly see the light of the moon “The Golden Crow [Sun] falls, and the Moon Rabbit [Moon] rises!”
“Turn left, turn right!”
“Day and night Because there is day, thus there is the concept of night!” Ning murmured to hiht is incoht turns of the lotus petal allow it to cancel out the two contrasting spins, allowing it to cancel out the force of the wind and stay in place, unmoved”
Ning closed his eyes
His spirit was already ‘one with the world’, and he became one with the wind and the lotus flowers in the pool
He could faintly sense some sort of enormous Principle, which hid ancient secrets that had existed since the creation of the endless universe…this secret, was the Dao [The Way]! The wind held the Dao within it, and the Dao itself was vast and unknowable But when the wind blew past the lotus flower…Ning was capable of seeing the shadow of the Dao flash through the lotus flowers Capable of finding a hint of the movements and the true appearance of the Dao!
Ning quietly sat there in the lotus position by the side of the pool, coht as he attentively meditated on the hint of the ‘Dao’ which he had sensed from the lotus flowers circular movements
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Co that one could hope for but not ask for
In that hts, the environether, he was able to just barely touch a hint of the Dao But in order to touch the Dao…the prerequisite was that one would first have to become ‘one with the world’ Only after one’s mind could co the Eternal Dao
“Huahuahua…” A streah a srass
“Gugugu!”
Night descended, and the forest was now filled with the croaking of frogs
Slowly…
Rays of light began to surround Ning, still seated in the lotus position First, so one enormous lotus petal after another around hi, currently blossoently in the breeze
Iather as well, for into fiery lotus petals These enor
Two layers of lotus petals
The first layer was of watery lotus petals The second was of fiery lotus petals Each layer had exactly three petals
“Hu!” Fire and water intersected A wind arose out of nowhere
Huahuahua…
Between the two layers of lotus petals, a wind arose out of nowhere The two layers of lotus petals began to swivel The lower layer of watery lotus petals swiveled to the left, while the upper layer of fiery lotus petals were turning to the right! The two layers of lotus petals were coishly, they rotated, but Ning hith at all