182 The Pearls Of Enlightenmen (1/2)
The first Order of business was to meet the elders of the temple and ask for permission to stay for a prolonged period of time and their help with delivering their child.
There was no reception waiting for them and the monks were no strangers to visitors, every once in a while, a different character came to speak with the supreme elder of the temple and then leave sometime after.
The moment Ridd.i.c.k landed, the ground shook for a moment and at the same time Remulos regained his form and Hennessy was instructed to keep herself in check. The group then a.s.semble and followed Bato straight into the tallest looking temple were Giant pillars that looked like scrolls and could be rotated stood by the entrance and a ma.s.sive gold statue could be seen through the door.
The oldest of the monks stood with his eyes close at the base of the golden statue and two rows of monks with attires different to the ones the disciples training in the courtyards were wearing sat in a praying position like waiting for enlightenment to drop from the heavens.
Niu didn't stick around and immediately took Bai towards his old cave in the middle of the mountains leaving the temple behind.
The main Elder looked like he was 1000 years old and if his real age was to be reveal it would not be of the mark by much. Rahz was very sensitive to other people's levels and he could tell that the tiny old man had actually broken through the barrier set by the realm and was now level 55.
”Amazing!!” said Rahz under his breath.
It was the first time Rahz encountered anyone outside the scope of his knowledge of the realm and without thinking he said out loud, ” You don't use G.o.d Runes?”
The people that were trying to get enlightenment opened their eyes to look at the tiny elder by the based of the statue and for the first time in years they saw him opened his eyes. The eyes of the elder were as blue as the sky and if one looked closely, people could see a light that shone with an abundant life force.
”Amitabha, The great ancestor gained Enlightenment and in doing so, he managed to see the hideous creatures that resided inside the Rune of Awakening on his body and by using his Ki he was able to destroy it. Since that moment on, the Temple of the Rising Sun does not wors.h.i.+p any G.o.ds and we look ourselves as a vessel that can grow by acc.u.mulating the energy around us”
Rahz was impressed that the ancestor of the Temple was able to figure out the truth via enlightenment and created a force that belonged only to the realm. The only problem Rahz saw was that the monks isolated themselves instead of doing something about the problem they were facing. The method they used to train martial arts was also different to the method Rahz thought his students, the Temple of the Rising Sun converted the energy of the Realm into Ki or Chi that they incorporated into their martial arts.
It was a very specialized version of the energy manipulation of the realm, they were really good at Transformation and Emission and the way they thought their disciples was something like; this is how you build Ki in your body and then through he martial arts you released it like this in set ways. The majority of the monks in the temple trained very hard in order to increase their vessels through meditation, martial arts and a process called meridian enhancement. The combination of their training allowed them to increase the size of their vessel and thus increase their levels.
Rahz on the other hand taught his students the way to manipulate energy to change their bodies entirely and let them choose what they wanted to specialize on so they could develop their on style. He taught them Emision, transformation, reinforcement, conjuration and manipulation and how to combined them into an outcome.
”How can our humble temple be of a.s.sistance, Chosen” said the supreme elder.
”We would be really grateful if we could stay until my wife gives birth to our child and maybe a portal to one of the major cities if is available”
”The temple does not deny a helping hand to anybody and it would be our honor to help somebody so close to nature as yourself”
”Thank you, Great Elder”
Rahz looked at the elder for a second but he didn't want to get down to business right away so after exchanging a few more pleasantries they said their goodbyes and turned to followed Bato to the guest building where they made themselves at home.
The decorations of the courtyard were very simple but they brought peace and happiness to the person looking at them, one thing that made the team extremely surprised was that despite all the disciples training in the temple none of their shouts reverberated through, instead all they had was peace and quiet.