IDOLIZING CHAOS

Mountain, Lakes and Man Technique.

[WUUUU!!]

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The windy clouds let out deafening noises with lightning streaming out of its periphery. It created a huge hurricane diameter of about 2 meters and length stretching to the heavens.

The eye of the storm though, shrunk to the size of 7 palms in diameter to hover on a figure currently bemoaning his fate.

This soul was in fact Aeries, and needless to say, everybody without enough experience would have the same face he was making; Dread.

"Plaque, Is that my Breakthrough? Why is there a cloud?" He asked queerly?"

"Hehe, Going up from Martial Warrior Realm to Martial General Realm, the miniature form of a heavenly calamity would always 'test' every cultivator. To see is one is worthy to climb the ranks of honor." Plaque's chuckle came immediately.

'He is taking pleasure in this!'

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"f**k! What am I suppose to do, run?" Aeries noticed his cloud... Sorry, Mini heavenly tribulation was 10x the normal, which he reviewed from his previous memories. 'are the gods trying to kill me? Maybe I spewed some secrets in my sleep and Mealre wants to silence me! Screw it, am out!'

He had no idea when it came, but the idea of leaving this place immediately had already taken root in his mind. Of course, he could breakthrough when another time.

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As if hearing his thoughts, Plaque crashed all his hopes,

"You can't break through any other time than now. Don't fret, your heavenly tribulation being this big means good things for you. It's the best way to comprehend your skills. With each strike, the laws of heaven and earth are imbued in it. To grasp it and gain comprehension, one must first be baptized." He elaborated.

"I see. Wait! I don't have enough skills! What if am not if skills to comprehend" A wretched thought formed in Aeries mind almost immediately.

"Well, nothing exactly. but what do you mean—"

[HOOONG!!]

Rumblings of thunder disrupted their conversation.

"Quick! if you don't want to die with me, pass on your best skills to me!" In Aeries mind, a large palm had materialized and was currently making a 'put it in' gesture.

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'How shameless can you be! normal high-rank techniques aren't okay for you?' Plaque shouted inwardly.

But still, he linked his mind with Aeries and sent three skills, "Brat! I have Four great techniques here but you can only learn one.

The first, Soaring heavens is a movement technique of the divine grade, that lets you become almost weightless enough. The peak can even merge you with the void.

The second is Sword of Netherworld, Practice this sword technique to the peak and even the gods would be afraid of you. 4th divine ranked technique.

The third is called emperor turtle. For complete defense from any attack under the Saint realm. This one is at the 2nd level of the divine rank.

As for the last, even I don't know its grade. It might be low, it might be high. but one thing is certain, it's intricate enough to baffle even me.

It's a body technique called Mountains Lakes and Man.

Choose wisely!"

What Plaque meant was that he could only give one of them, 'this bastard! stingy till the end. How long have you inhabited my artifact in my sea of consciousness, yet this is the only thing you offer! I'll make you regret it soon.'

This Master-Servant relationship was really bizarre and somehow incoherent.

Aeries did not think too long before making his choice "Mountains Lake and Man. I want it." First, he already had misty steps technique which he had not comprehended till the end.

As for the Sword of Netherworld, it being a Sword technique dampened his spirit to no end. His hand was the Axe. to use a sword now...

No need to talk about Emperor Turtle. The name was as bland as everyone who cultivated it. As a cultivator, to spend years nurturing a technique just for protection was a joke to the cultivation world itself.

"Good. now hurry up and survey the pedagogy," Plaque linked his mind with Aeries and sent the full copy of the skill.

Several characters appeared on Aeries mind...

[ Seeing Mountains as Mountains. Seeing Lakes as Lakes.

Viewing Mountains, not as Mountains, Lakes not as Lakes.

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Viewing Man as Mountains, Viewing Man as Lakes.]

"What is this?"

"Eh? Brat! you like what you see?"

"That's disgusting... even for you!"

Aeries was fully concentrated on understanding the mystery of this Secret Art.

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'If I recall correctly, There is a saying from old, 'Seeing Mountains as Mountains. Seeing Lakes as Lakes. Viewing Mountains, not as Mountains, Lakes not as Lakes... the last verse wasn't there. which means either the former was incomplete or they both mean a different thing entirely.

Only one way to find out.'

"Open!"

In his Sea of Consciousness, a huge scroll was pried open with this command. On the scroll, several drawings were depicted with solemn words describing the steps.

"This skill has three phases to it. It should be divided as this... The first phase should be the Mountain, the second Lake... and the last should be the Man.

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What's surprising is that these phases are independent of each other, meaning I can cultivate Lake without any understanding of Mountain, and vice versa... This should be a true Cultivation Treasure!"

"What boy? Cat got your tongue? Hehe, my knowledge expands to the ends of BIa Tain. My wisdom every flowing with every word. Know Tow and take me as your master... Maybe then I might consider letting out some other 'trash' like this."

'f**k!! this bastard is messing with me!" From the barter, Aeries completely lost to the shamelessness of Plaque.

Again this Master-Servant contract of theirs would befuddle the world like another Energy Matter Conversion Hypothesis... en, best to leave it this way...

"Kid, you have less than 2 minutes to discern the essence of the technique, so be fast" Plaque noted in an uncommitted voice.

Aeries nodded and sat in a meditative posture. Hid eyes closed as he viewed the content of the technique in his mind.

"The grade of this technique... doesn't seem to be low at all!"