Brat, you must remember that women are the source of trouble. You shouldn’t get close to woman while you live.”
Lin Cheng’s words seemed to linger in my ears for the entire night, “Remember, you must learn to make use of the aura of the sky, earth and men. Otherwise, you will only be stuck at the level of strengthening one’s body for your entire life, then what you would only be training is your body, forever unable to go to the next stage.”
The old man taught me all I knew about harnessing the aura, yet he did not personally witness me as I got to the next stage of my training.
That night, my shirt was drenched from dewdrops as poisonous snakes slithered through the grass to my neck, yet then slithering away silently. After experiencing the boundary between life and death that night, I learnt to harness the aura within one’s body. The aura originates from our subsistence, it spreads through our hearts and lungs, sinking into our skin, nourishing our body, a cycle that never ends. The aura within a human originates from external matter, yet it was available for human use. From ancient times, the number of people who were able the grasp the ability to harness aura from the sky, earth and humans to train oneself are uncountable, and among this group, the number of those who lived to ripe old age was numerous. During Zhuang Zi’s age, harnessing the aura was considered a way of keeping healthy.
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“Ah…”
On the bed opposite of me, Glasses slowly sat up and picked up a cup beside his bed, smiling, he asked, “Morning Xiao Yao, waking up at 7, is there some mission you have to do today?”
I smiled, “It’s nothing, I’m used to waking up early…”
“I heard that last night, you went with Lin Wan Er to eat at First Heaven Restaurant? There’s a photo of the both of you eating on the school’s BBS. Tsk tsk”
“…”
Not saying anything, I got off the bed and had a cold shower in the bathroom. After changing into a clean shirt, I could finally feel myself living after the Imprint yesterday. Except that, when I touch the wound from the microchip implant at the back of my head, there is a sharp pain. I don’t have much knowledge on technology and such stuff, but I knew that the memory that night has been deeply imprinted within my mind.
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