IDOLIZING CHAOS

Qi deviation

The first script had several illustrations of a sort of workout. Some of these images had their hands facing the east, others in horse stance posture, and several other movements.

"Good! I can do this." He sat up with his eyes fixed on the approaching storm. 'Two minutes ought to have passed by now. what could be the problem?'

Just as he thought this, Plaque's slightly worried voice wanted him, "Brat! start moving according to the scripture now!"

Following that command, Aeries immediately got into a standpoint.

[Hong!!] Lightning struck down with a deafening thunder. The beam alone was about the size of a fist. color surprisingly was not the normal light blue, but a hue of viscous green.

Aeries was suddenly pushed out because of its influence, He spat out blood and took unsteady steps to balance himself.

'damn. he's expended his energy after that long exhausting battle. Am afraid he can't hold up much longer.' Plaque had his fright. What about this father that occupied his Sea of Consciousness. Would it mean that I'll die too?'

Literally, it was the Human Temple, the artifact that Aeries got from the ricer of time; that Plaque was in.

This artifact had the ability to shrink to any size at will, and also it could be stored in a person's sea of consciousness. To keep things safe, Aeries had thrown Plaque to it before pitting it in his mind sea.

'damn this brat!'

"Boy! you're doing it all wrong! feel the technique and not read it! You're going to die before even breaking through. You should remember that you can't even run from your tribulation."

The second lightning was already brewing in the clouds, its ferociousness many times bigger than the first.

Aeries did not panic again after that brief shock, he already knew he hadn't practiced the technique well.

" To feel the technique, you must first be the technique. Don't follow the diagrams but be the diagram!" Plaque followed up.

Aeries made a nod before closing his eyes. focusing entirely on the drawings. The phrase 'be the drawing' could look very misleading and in fact a little too crazy, bit Aeries had an inkling after he failed the first time.

"There's no rhythm! No scenery, no Flow." He kept muttering while trying to visualize several scenes in his mind.

"Facing the sun requires Yang Qi. palms outstretched denotes submission..."

'Eff! this looks like a dance!'

A few seconds ticked with Aeries still standing at one spot, his eyes closed shut and two hands parallel to each other facing forward.

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"Brat! the best lightning is about to strike, am Afraid—" Plaque voice sounded worried now. His life was on the line.

"I see, so it was like that—"

[Hong!!!]

The moment the Lightning struck out Aeries finally moved, not with Vigor or any hint of destructiveness like before, but gentle... in a very serene and cooling move.

His hands and legs traveled back and forth in a 'Jutsu- like' formation, sometimes hands crossed together, other times as flaring as swords, and some other times soft like playing the Qin. His legs also moved with random directions every time but still not outside a five-meter radius.

"This is!!"

Under the influence of Aeries movements, a large diagram of Yin and Yang formed a swirling diagram under him.

Still, Aeries had his eyes closed and moved without a thought of anything, what was even more bizarre, this diagram spun ever so slowly like a wheel as Aeries moved.

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Currently Aeries Appeared in his Sea of consciousness which was now storming with ripples. Another him appeared almost at the same time, but his facial features were covered with a cloth.

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"Follow the diagram. Be the diagram." It moved with replicating steps... His even more rapport with The Flow.

"Slow, Slow, Slow, Fast, Slow, Fast, Fast—" Except the occasional ramblings, everywhere began serenely while Aeries moved almost the same time.

Losing count of time, Aeries indulged himself in this intoxicating feeling. Every move brought a unique resemblance of an action but not quite.

"Your time is up. Qi reserve is almost empty. any more and you'll receive a Qi rebound" The clone said.

'f**k! This can't be. I was this close to learning Mountains!'

"Wait, can I still use Qi from external sources?"

"Affirmative," It answered.

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"Sheena is this the boy you said helped you out of the Red Mountain Range right... If I recall correctly, in your story he wasn't up to the 5th Stage of the Martial Warrior Realm."

"Y-yes. He should have been at the 2nd stage at his peak..."

Some meters out, a gathering of people stared wide-eyed at this phenomenon, every strike brought shivers to their backs.

finally, Third Mistress, Katherine couldn't hold her anxiety anymore and spoke out, "Are you sure the master undergoing such Tribulation is that Brat? He couldn't cultivate just last year! Impossible!" She shook her head.

"True, no one can use only one year to go from the Martial Body Building Realm to the Martial Warrior Realm, don't even talk about to the Martial General Realm!" Everybody concurred with a nod. The expression on their faces was one of Unbelief.

"There's nothing impossible in that. At the War Lord Imperial Academy, Children are all required to be at the Martial Warrior Realm and below age 18 to even qualify to sit for an assessment. Taking one or two years to scale the very first Realm is not worth talking of..."

Everyone rubbed their chin in a serious daze as they all tried to 'comprehend' what the Old man said. One couldn't be sure if they really understood his meaning or they put on their finest pretend look.

The only thing certain was, only less than one-tenth knew the so-called War Lord Imperial Academy. There's no helping it, this Academy is the leading star of the Demi-race Empire, a foreign place people in the Blue-Winged Main Capital had never stepped into... Nonetheless, they are at the smallest subordinate Kingdom.

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"We understand Grandmaster. But even then, these people are only rarely seen geniuses, once in a thousand years seen type. Only Houses with deep backgrounds and wealthy upbringings could dare house them."

"That's true Katherine, hmmm. But still, it took me as a surprise to see a young boy not up to 16 breaking through to the Martial General Realm only 50% of Cultivators could be successful, and even more so, being accompanied by such tribulation."

"Grandpa! could it be you can even see through this thick fog? Quickly tell me how he looks like. Aeries has Azure hair braided back, his eyes have this shine of brilliance in them and his face—"

"Sheena. Don't you lose yourself, *Coughs* You can be ascertained. These features you called can be seen on the boy undergoing tribulation. Maybe he might be the Aeries you talked of."

"Really Grandpa? so when do you think he would come out—"

"Bad! He's run out of Qi! it seems like after this tribulation the boy might end up Crippled or worse..."

"Can't you do something?" Sheena asked in a bitter struggle.

"Am sorry honey. If I had just 8% of my previous strength, it would have been a piece of cake. But now, all am left with is just my larger soul. am afraid it's all up to him.