Chapter 181 - Getting Stronger For Him (2/2)
Only after nearly a year did he find out what exactly it meant to have full spirit veins. Trash. Indeed. If it was about trash, then having more of it wasn't a good thing. Quite the contrary. Nobody wanted trash.
”I still have to live with it, though. Ah … I really wonder what that other idea was that Qiu Ling had. His first one really helped, so maybe it would have worked out?”
He couldn't ask him, though. ”For now, I should try to become better at this. It's a long way till the capital. Until I'm there I can train. Wouldn't Qiu Ling be happy when he saw that I don't have any problems anymore sensing the energy of the air he showed me? And maybe I can even learn to sense one of the other energies …”
He lightly pursed his lips. He was sitting on the ground with earth below him and all around him was forest. There should be a lot of earth and wood energy. He had tried to sense them back in the outer sect already but had never managed to do so. Maybe it would be different now. After all, he had been able to do it with one of the elements. Maybe he could do it with the others, too?
He put his hands on the ground and concentrated. He felt the little grains it consisted of and the sharp stones embedded in it, he could even feel the moisture that had covered it and was slowly seeping down. But just like with the air before this was just something physical. It had nothing to do with the spiritual energy. It was just the same as always.
Jing Yi sighed. ”Do I really need Qiu Ling's help to achieve anything? How can that be?”
He turned around and pressed his hands against the tree trunk instead. Once again he felt those things he already knew: The bark, the sticky resin and the water droplets that clung to it and the bit of earth the wind had blown up. Once again, the spiritual energy completely eluded him.
Jing Yi dropped his hands and sighed. He felt defeated right now. As if he would never be able to solve the mystery around cultivation. Without help, he couldn't even sense the energy!
He furrowed his brow and thought of what Qiu Ling had said: 'My love, after five years of achieving nothing you finally took the first step. Is this really the moment where you should think of giving up? Trust me a bit. It might not have worked just now but we're not at our rope's end, are we? I still have an idea that might work. Let's just try it.'
Right. He was right. This wasn't the moment to give up. Today was just the first day. He'd just try every day from now on. And someday he'd manage to do it. He was sure of it!
Jing Yi continued to sit on the ground and went back to sensing the air energy, slowly trying to widen his scope. He only fell asleep in the morning hours and rested a bit before continuing on towards the capital.