Chapter 9
Volume 1: Chapter 16: Heart Facing The Blue Sea (2)
After listening to his lucid explanation, Miao Yi finally understood. He began to comprehend with his heart, immersing his body and mind into this world. During a tidal change, Miao Yi finally felt the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.
Besides the daily meditation and cultivation, Lao Bai also made Miao Yi exercise continuously.
For example, he was ordered to create a trench, intercepting a river’s flow and thereby creating a waterfall on the mountain.
Lao Bai said that the scenery would look better with a waterfall on the mountain.
This was a huge amount of work. After suffering terribly for his efforts, Miao Yi could only think that this was a useless task.
Miao Yi seized the chance to ask, "Lao Bai, don’t you think that doing such strenuous work is just a waste of time? I think I should be using all the time I have to cultivate and gather enough Spiritual Qi as quickly as possible to cultivate the first wave of transcendence energy."
Lao Bai shook his head and said, "Your cultivation has not yet reached the level where you’re able to ignore the fundamental body. What if one day in the future, you couldn’t use your transcendence energy because of an accident? By then, your neglected body wouldn’t even be able to walk without transcendence energy and even an ordinary woman could kill you. Wouldn’t that be pathetic? At this stage of your cultivation, strengthening the body is equivalent to strengthening the Essence, Qi and Spirit, thus, maintaining a healthy state of these elements can only be beneficial. Even if someone were to meditate every day, if his spirit is weak, he would only get half the results with twice the effort. Would that be preferable to the alternative; getting twice the results with half the effort? Most importantly, with a strong body full of Essence, Qi and Spirit, you would not easily fear an enemy encounter holding a powerful aura. This is very important to a beginner!"
In any case, whatever Lao Bai said seemed to make sense. It was as if whatever Lao Bai wanted Miao Yi to do had a reason behind it and therefore, Miao Yi could only continue in earnest.
A year later, a waterfall appeared on the mountain, a splas.h.i.+ng, silver dragon. Carrying a stick, Miao Yi wrenched out the last big rock and placed it in the waters. He then climbed onto the sh.o.r.e from within the torrents, the fierceness of the water currents almost pus.h.i.+ng him down. Some way or another, he had finally constructed the waterfall that Lao Bai wanted.
Lao Bai had gone sightseeing again. Thus, he did not see the result of Miao Yi’s work at the time it was fully completed.
During the third day after the waterfall was constructed, a barefooted and half-naked Miao Yi sat cross-legged on a reef beside the sea. The sea breeze blew by as he meditated with his eyes closed. His chest, palms and soles faced the heavens as he gathered the True Fire of Supreme Yang. This was a necessary process for his cultivation of the Fiery Star Technique.
The past year spent in labor was not in vain. Miao Yi appeared a lot more mature, and his body was covered with hard muscles. His skin color had turned slightly tanned from his time under the sun.
According to Lao Bai, Miao Yi was tanned because he wasn’t able to absorb, use, and control the True Fire of Supreme Yang in its entirety.
However, after many months and days, Miao Yi still managed to absorb an abundant amount of True Fire of Supreme Yang within