Chapter 145: Start with the Body (Part 1/2) (1/2)

Chapter 145: Start with the Body (Part 1/2)

Translator: Strivon

Sit up? Yeah, he did sit up. He sat in the lotus position, looking like a pyramid. He completely lost the image of the mountains and rivers imparted upon him by Xiu Shenyu.

Luo Nan gaped with his mouth, speechless.

Somehow, Xiu Shenyu wasn't that surprised. He sized Luo Nan up and down a few times, then slowly said, ”The breathing technique. Taking old and new techniques and fusing them into a furnace. This is a good thing.”

Xue Lei let out a breath of relief. ”Then that's good.”

He never expected Xiu Shenyu's next words to be, ”It is also a pity that the art cannot be used upon his own body.”

”What?”

Xue Lei blinked. He was unable to translate the gym master's words! Xue Lei looked at Luo Nan, whose head was lowered in deep thought, and saw no reaction from him. In the end, Xue Lei could only ask, ”Gym master, sir, what do you mean…?”

Xiu Shenyu did not respond to Xue Lei. He gazed at Luo Nan for a moment, then said, ”I taught you to visualize the image of the mountains and rivers, but you were unable to bring about the mountains and rivers. The frozen ground. The icy waters through the crevasses. Most of it has been frozen. Water lubricates things, whereas ice brings one pressure.”

Luo Nan pondered over Xiu Shenyu’s words. After a while, he raised his head and said, ”I ask the gym master for guidance.”

Xue Lei looked at the gym master. Then, he looked at Luo Nan. He ultimately confirmed that he was out of a translating job. He shirked back to a corner and stopped saying anything, but his ears straightened in attention.

Xiu Shenyu thought as he spoke, ”Just like Rome wasn't built in a day, three feet of ice does not form in a single day. I don't quite understand your visualization technique, but I can vaguely feel things from it. From the inside to the outside, your technique is strict and rigid, but is also grand and imposing. It is enchanting. And this, of course, is an excellent thing. Unfortunately, this glacial mountain isn't truly yours. The higher this glacial mountain is amassed, the grander and vaster it is, but at the same time, the smaller and more indistinct you become…. As a man absorbs this power, the power also absorbs the man. This is your problem.”

Gym Master Xiu was never one who was good at words. He was not quite clear in his train of thought and in his way with words when he conversed with people. It was very laborious for one to hear his speech with its many metaphors and analogies.

To the side, Xue Lei's eyes were spinning in circles as he heard all this. Luckily, Luo Nan combined the gym master's words with his own understandings of his body and the prison in his mind – the interwoven dark chains – and was able to get a general understanding.

As Luo Nan understood Xiu Shenyu, Luo Nan became seriously shocked by Xiu Shenyu's level of insight. He really respected Xiu Shenyu. This gym master undoubtedly had true skill. However, Luo Nan gained an even deeper loss now when it came to his own situation.

It took a while before Luo Nan could ask, ”Why isn't it mine? I'm the one cultivating using it!”

”Is it all truly you?”

This response stupefied Luo Nan completely.

From the very beginning, the road he walked as he researched Formatting Theory was a road that required he rely on external forces. Psychotropic drugs. Darksider life forms. Sacrificial frames…. The decisive application of these external things was the driving force behind the leaps and bounds of growth of his soul strength. The only thing Luo Nan did was erect the frame.

And even the frame was something he learned from his grandfather.

Xiu Shenyu slowly stood up while Luo Nan was in his daze. He walked inside, next to the tai chi ball. There was not much lighting in the room, and the distance was far. All one could see was a fuzzy silhouette.

Luo Nan and Xue Lei glanced at each other. They both got up and walked over.

Xiu Shenyu disregarded the two. He simply played with the tai chi ball, causing the bowl tray on the ground to swivel. The metal ball was half a man tall and was over a hundred kilograms in weight. It began to rotate with noticeable noise. The rolling created a reverberating sound, and the cork floor was trembling.

”This is the glacial mountain.”

Luo Nan nodded. He had automatically substituted the words 'glacial mountain' for 'Formatting Theory' in his mind.