Chapter 144: Power of the Mountains and Rivers (Part 2/2) (1/2)

Chapter 144: Power of the Mountains and Rivers (Part 2/2)

Translator: Strivon

The body was a mountain range with dense vegetation and thick soil. It can bear the rays of the sun and the rain of the clouds. It can resist storms and thunder.

Breath was flowing water. It twisted and turned, amassing the beautiful soul of the mountain range, giving life to all living things.

Here, the body was the foundation. It was the utmost, the decisive material structure. It was akin to a mountain range; there existed highs and lows, up and downs. Vital energy was the function decided by the body's foundation. It was like the power of flowing water. It followed the form of the mountain as it flowed down, and warmth and coldness, yin and yang, can be seen.

The two conformed to each other, and nuances gradually grew clearer as the still state of mind intensified and the real and the virtual were manifested and discerned. There truly seemed to be a painting of mountains and rivers being unfurled before Luo Nan's eyes. Within the rolling mountains, clear rivers snaked around as they followed the path of potential. In some places the waters remained in place. In some places they turned. In some places they split. The waters diverged completely in different places.

Having these differences allowed the sense of substance to become clearer.

Gradually, there were some places where the flow of water accumulated into something like a deep lake, a dark whirlpool. These were meridian points, and Xiu Shenyu wanted him to pay special attention to them. These nourished and grew the soul. These were fields of blessing.

Luo Nan's consciousness gradually confirmed their locations and contracted them with his pre-established concepts of the body: top of the head, the chest, the lower abdomen, and even the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet….

There seemed to be a resonance among these meridian points, and they surged with dark life. Waves cut across, and the feeling of mist-like nothingness gradually retreated. Luo Nan's perception toward his body was expressed anew, but this time it was with a completely new understanding than before.

It was like the ancient philosophical proposition: ”The mountain is seen as a mountain; water is seen as water. The mountain is seen as not a mountain; water is seen as not water. The mountain is still a mountain; water is still water.”

Luo Nan felt stupid when he heard Xiu Shenyu talk about these things, but when he truly experienced it himself, he felt he understood things quite clearly.

However, Xiu Shenyu was only talking about the first step. He had yet to discuss what they would do next.

Luo Nan’s focus lightened a bit, his thoughts wandering. He originally wanted to exit the still state of mind and ask Xiu Shenyu the know-hows for the next step, but the resonance among his meridian points made him recall Rui Wen's marvelous technique of body and soul merging.

But after carefully comparing the experiences, Luo Nan ultimately found that they were different.

Luo Nan was far from reaching Rui Wen's ability to merge body and soul as one. The resonance in his body only occured between a few meridian points. Each meridian point was a terminal point with lines connecting them, forming a fuzzy structure. The structure was a bit chaotic and complex. It was also somewhat familiar.

If slight adjustments were made….

The feeling Luo Nan perceived within his body was still quite unfocused. Luo Nan subconsciously viewed his body as a revisable painting. The terminal points were moved, and the connecting lines were merged. After a few adjustments, the fuzzy and chaotic structure became orderly. The structure became a central axis in the shape of a pyramid.

Luo Nan suddenly sensed that something was wrong. He wanted to open his eyes, but then a shout came cutting in from the outside world.

”Continue!”

The voice was heavy, and it pressed down against Luo Nan's surging mind. Luo Nan's mind shook a few times before eventually maintaining the still state. By now, the image of mountains and rivers had blurred and faded away, as a more familiar scene grew in its absence.

It was a pyramid rotating in the void. Precisely speaking, it was the Format Pyramid, the visualization diagram.

Luo Nan was rather bewildered by the sudden change in imagery. His perception toward his physical body was also affected, turning chaotic. But this situation did not last long. The chaotic information was absorbed by the rotating visualization diagram within Luo Nan's still state of mind. It was neat and orderly, structured with rules, and it seemed to be the central axis. A single action spurred the bones, flesh, and even the hundreds of millions of veins. An action spurred a hundred actions, a thousand actions, ten-thousand actions. It possessed rules, and was not the slightest bit disorderly.