Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 4 — Gate Dantian
"This is truly a terrible era..."
After reading for a long time Zhou Yuan finally closed his book followed by a sigh.
Putting aside his death, the existence of the 7 Heavenly Fruits made the martial world experience chaos that no one could imagine.
Underlying the war was because there were three hostile parties, first the sects, the two governments and lastly the criminal organizations. The reason the three parties fought was because they wanted 7 Heavenly Fruits.
Surprisingly, those who ate the heavenly fruit in that era did not survive, almost every eater was killed by his opponents.
Any party was afraid that someone who ate the heavenly fruit would pose a great threat to the other party in the future so they tried to maybe kill him as quickly as they could before the swordsman grew into a figure who was the most powerful robust.
When the eater of the seven heavenly fruits is not alive, it does not make the three-party warfare complete, but rather it is the culmination of its chaos.
The criminal organizations began to be the first to attack, destroying villages and towns to kill innocent people in order to gain power in the martial world.
Criminal organizations take advantage of this condition when the government is in conflict with the sects.
The organizations were mostly warriors who were maniacs for murder, no matter the opponents of warriors or commoners, their men or women still killed them all.
The government that is not ready to attack the organizations cannot remain silent, the problem is that their strength is not enough to fight against these organizations so that time they were forced to ask for help from sect masters.
The sects who did not like the criminal organization from the beginning finally received cooperation from the government, warriors from the sect were generally respected warriors, but they were the most respected warriors, they do love fighting but do not have to attack innocent citizens.
In the end when the government and the sects cooperate, they can finally beat back the criminal organization.
Even if the criminal organizations suffered their defeat remains a great threat, sooner or later the same turmoil will be repeated let alone the criminal organizations are now starting to ally and form a larger organization.
On the good side after the era ended, the relationship between the sects and the government improved until now.
Zhou Yuan remembered the criminal organization that had killed him, if his estimation was correct that he was reborn after a hundred years from his death then the criminal organization might still exist.
In the second of his first life, Zhou Yuan had already decided to avenge himself on the organization.
He had regretted his decision not to interfere in the martial world when many people needed it, in the end when he was in trouble he found himself alone, no one would help him.
Let alone helping, people even most no one knows him.
Zhou Yuan stared at the cover of the book before sighing again, come to think of it he had no relation to anyone in his first life except for his teacher. Zhou Yuan spent much of his time alone.
"I hope that in this second life, I can find many things...."
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After reading the history of the era of destruction, Zhou Yuan changed his mind to practice martial arts at the age of five.
Zhou Yuan thought it would be better if he started it now, there was nothing wrong with him becoming a swordsman at such a young age.
"I have to open the dantian gate now, I hope no one goes to my room while I meditate..." Zhou Yuan glanced at the door of his room remembering his mother would enter every night to make sure he was asleep or not.
Zhou Yuan started to position his seat cross-legged before closing his eyes on the bed, he began to concentrate on opening the dantian gate.
Gate dantian is a basic technique of a swordsman who will become a swordsman, if someone since childhood can not open the gate dantian then it has been ensured throughout his life he will not be able to become a swordsman.
The process of opening the gate should only last for a moment, generally children will open the Dantian Gate when the age of seven to twelve years with guidance by his teacher.
Zhou Yuan was an exception because of his experience in the first life, he did not need a guide when the process of opening the dantian gate occurred.
Zhou Yuan took at least two hours until the process of opening the gate was complete, he exhaled violently, seeming from his mouth came out white smoke.
"Ah, it's been a long time since I've felt this, I've almost forgotten it..."
Zhou Yuan rubbed the sweat on his forehead, almost all of his clothes were now sweating to the point of making his clothes wet.
When the opening of the gate was finished, now that Zhou Yuan's body could feel the natural essence around him, within his body there was also something different called deep power.
The essence of nature is a natural element that exists in this universe, when the essence of nature is absorbed by the body of a swordsman it will be formed whose name is deep energy.
Inner energy can be calculated by numbers with units called inner energy circles. So the more circles on a person's dantian, the more energy he stored.
For example Zhou Yuan, when the opening of the dantian gate was completed, now inside his body was created ten inner power circles.
"Hm, this is more than I thought..." Zhou Yuan was surprised when ten inner power circles were formed, "In the first life, I could only produce three circles."
Not only was the number of circles different, but the feeling of his body also felt odd when he felt the inner power returning.
Zhou Yuan closed his eyes to look at the surge of power in his body but he discovered the waves of his inner power had a different color, he said, generally the inner power waves were light blue but in Zhou Yuan's dantian the waves were black.
Zhou Yuan held his breath, as soon as he recalled his teacher's words regarding this situation.
"According to the teacher, the flow of inner energy is actually in for two, one deep energy flow that is commonly used by warriors in the martial world and another deep energy flow that is created because it has a special body, and the other, the inner energy that a special body possesses is named after the energy in Yin. Could it be that this body of mine is actually the special body that teacher meant?"
Zhou Yuan could not confirm it but he was very sure about it, moreover he felt that there was a huge difference between the inner power he had felt with the inner power in this second life. Clearly the inner flow of energy seemed purer.