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Chapter 366
Chapter 366: The five elements (3)
MIDNIGHT
ARIAL ROOM
The wind blows along the cracks of the wall and windows. Tonight the moon could clearly be seen.
It is a peaceful night. It is a good night to sleep. But it is clearly not so for Arial. He struggles on his bed and then slowly he wakes up from his sleep
Sighing he massage his temple. Then after calming himself down, he thought to himself since he is already awake, he should do something
He has been thinking that tonight is the night. It has been a long time since he did it and tonight seems to a perfect opportunity for him to do it.
When will he have the time after this?
Arial get up from the bed careful not to wake Helia. She is tired from the walk on the park so Arial did not want to disturb her sleep.
Arial carefully remove the blanket and get out from the room. Wearing thin clothes and just a thin pants Arial walked towards the tower. josei
There are still some guards and they all bowed slightly when they see him.
Arial has been neglecting his training since the preparation for the war began. He has been busy that he only manages to train his Internal cultivation but not the other technique.
So tonight he is going to train for a bit.
He enters his Private Library and he push a book at the highest shelves and then a creaking sound can be heard as the brick behind it open a passage to Arial secret room.
It is thanks to the prodigious talent of building from Asteros masons that Arial could build this secret room to train far away from prying eyes.
The surface of the secret room is laced with Black slime, a slime-like liquid only found in Vorthy, one that can hide energy signatures.
Arial find it necessary to avoid being caught practicing. It is not that he fears getting caught more than he fears what will happen if people are attacked unconsciously by his Imposing Presence.
The Secret Room has long been constructed but the Black Slime is a new addition to the room.
Arial enter the secret room and with his hand he pushes this jutted brick and then the brick door close itself.
If it is view from outside there is nothing that will indicate that there is a secret room in the private Library.
In the huge open space of the room Arial sit cross legged as his body begins emitting power. Arial began reciting the Teachings.
'Rocks are hard and unyielding,
The rivers flow around them and flow forgetting the hardness of rocks, Wood burns giving fire, Fire turns to ash which becomes earth, From earth emerges metal, And water came from condense air, Wood occupies earth, Earths soaks up the water, Water douses fire, Fire melts metal, Metal cuts wood.'
Arial recite this teaching remembering the Five elements of nature, one that he realizes after reading the books in the Temple of Linzi.
There is wisdom in its teaching.
It does not help Arial in cultivating internal energy but it does help Arial to focus and sometimes giving Arial an epiphany to create a new technique.
It is for this reason that Arial keep reciting what he can remember from the Teachings.
'Nothing under heaven is more yielding than water, but when it attacks things hard and resistant, there is not one of them that can prevail.'
Then Arial make a mental note of what he has read.
'For Metal, advance
For wood, retreat
For water, shift to the left
For fire, shift to the right
For earth, become the center.
Paint the rainbows and separate the clouds, row a boat at a still lake while gazing at the moon,'
Reciting and this while focusing and thinking on how to increase the thickness of the aura surrounding the body Arial work hard on these questions and his concentration is without a doubt at its peak.
He is trying to unravel the intricacies of Imposing presence, to be a wood that rouses the fire, to learn to harden like metal, to burn like fire, to be unyielding like the earth, to flow like water.
Arial intend to unify the five elements in his Imposing Presence, to make it the first undefeatable technique in the world.
When he is at a hard spot and has lost hope he must be like a firewood rising the fire in his heart, when he attacks his strike must burn his enemies to cinders and ash, when he defends, his body must be strong as the hardest metal that none could break it, when he stops and take a position he must be unyielding like a mountain that no one could topple, when he fights people with technique superior than him, he must be unpredictable and his attack must flow flawlessly like a flowing water.
It is this he envisioned for the next stage of Imposing Presence.
Arial has been imagining this stage the moment he reads about the five Elements in the secluded corner of the temple of Linzi.
Arial was very interested in the idea of the five elements that he always pesters the Abbot for guidance.
It is because of that Arial felt gratitude and as such even willing to go to the Martial Art tournament in place of the Linzi temple.
He has owed too much to the Southern Healer and Arial doesn't like the feeling of owing anybody anything and as such their debt is cleared the moment Arial win the martial art tournament.
Arial then continue his training until dawn.
It was the cuckoo of chicken and the chirping of birds outside that awoken Arial from his Imaginary Scape for he could not enter the Scape for too long remembering his meeting with King Adrian.
He opens his eyes, get up from his cross legged position and exited the secret room with elated hearts as he prepares to meet the King.
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