Chapter 24
Chen Zhen was taking deep breathes to stay calm, even though his body was starting to swell, and he was in excruciating pain. He clinched his teeth causing a grinding sound, as sweat was pouring down his head soaking his clothes and his bed. Chen Zhen was racking his brain trying to find a solution to his problem with the different energies repelling each other. Just as Chen Zhen was about to really start panicking he hear a high-pitched ring from a small bell. The ring sound light, but the reverberation hung in the air for a long time. Just as the sound was beginning to fade, the bell was rung again. As the sound waves travelled thru his body it caused a miraculous change in his dantian when it travelled thru it. The chaotic energies began to calm down, no longer struggling to explode out of Chen Zhen's dantian. By the third ring Chen Zhen noticed the bell was coming from his sea of consciousness.
As he looked inside he could see the clone holding a small porcelain bell with blue and white decorations on it. Chen Zhen immediately recognized it as one his grandmother used to have in her home when she was still alive. Chen Zhen thought it was very beautiful when he was a kid and wanted to play with it. He remembered his grandmother saying that it was too delicate for kids tom play with and it would break easily. Chen Zhen still wanted to play with it anyway, so when his grandmother wasn't looking he snuck into her room to ring the bell. The bell had a small porcelain dowel that was painted to match, which was used to ring the bell. The first couple of times he rang the bell no problem, but as he got more, and more excited he rang the bell with increasing force. Next thing Chen Zhen knew the bell cracked in half. His grandmother was very angry with him for disobeying her warning. He felt awful about what he did. When he was old enough he bought her a replacement. He could still remember how happy she was when she opened her gift to see that same bell again after so many years.
The sound of the bell and the memory of his grandmother helped Chen Zhen to calm down. This also
For Chen Zhen to create the energy spark for his fire he vibrated the fire elemental energy in his body creating friction. He used a similar technique for the lightening elemental energy creating a static electricity. The biggest difference was in the speed that the two different energies vibrated. Chen Zhen first tried slowing down the vibration speed but as soon as he did the elemental energies started to breakdown no longer having the strength to sustain themselves. So instead he began to speed them up. This was promising but it took too much focus to speed both energies up and maintain a steady balance as he fed them into his dantian. He realized he had to focus on maintain the high vibration speed and continue that same speed while maintaining the balance of energy entering his dantian.
Seeing that he needed help the clone offered to control one of the energies while he controlled the other. With the two of them working together it was an instant success. As the both fed and rotated the energies into his dantian, the energies melded together seamlessly. Chen Zhen could immediately feel a huge boost in his strength.
Shanggu Feng and Lou Tian were once again astonished by what Chen Zhen did. They felt how close he came many times to failure. They were just sitting there waiting for their deaths to come. But miraculously Chen Zhen made it work.
"How did you figure it out", Lou Tian asked
"Yes I would like to know as well", Shanggu Feng chimed in,
"Its called harmonic frequency. I vibrated the two energies at such a high speed that was perfectly balance between the two. Then while doing this I slowly fed both energies into my dantian, while maintaining that high speed. It was very difficult, but it worked.", Chen Zhen explained sheepishly.
Chen Zhen went outside and went to the training platform. He practiced his martial moves, but this time his punches and kicks were accompanied by flames that were covered with lightening swirls. Chen Zhen made a casual gesture and formed a ball of energy in his palm. Aiming for a large boulder at the other side of the clearing, he was curious to see how powerful this new energy was. The boulder that was roughly the size of a VW Bug was instantly vaporized. There was a crater left that was three meters deep and ten meters round. Chen Zhen looked at his hand, then looked back at the crater with his eyes bugging out. That small casual toss was extremely powerful. Chen Zhen wasn't sure, but he felt confident facing a rank 4 Blood Lion now that he had this new energy to rely on. Shanggu Feng and Lou Tian were happy to see Chen Zhen getting stronger. Even though he was a level 6 body refinement stage cultivator, the energy he released was something you would see in the early stages of the liquid core stage. They refrained from telling this to Chen Zhen because they wanted him to continue in his steady advancement. If Chen Zhen knew how powerful he was exactly he might try to rush his training, ruining his foundation and possibly getting into a situation that was way over his head.
Chen Zhen spent most of the night practicing. The training platform had increased the weight of his clothes again. Chen Zhen didn't know it, but he was already wearing over two hundred kilograms of extra weight. To him his clothes felt a little heavy but didn't really inc.u.mber his movement much. He finally went to sleep a little before the sun rose.
The next morning after his meal and expanding his dantian he went to go hunting again. Mei Ling and the kids waved by as they saw Chen Zhen off. As soon as Chen Zhen stepped thru the barrier he knew something was wrong. Before he had time to react a loud roar came from directly beside Chen Zhen.