Divinity

Impurities

"Wonder if I'm dead and this is all a dream"

Bia Xiao stool a stop to check his heartbeat, pulse and the likes. This felt like a dream to him, so many strange things happening all at once. He was able to fight against meridian opening realm warriors, he was able to dodge throwing knives that should have taken his life several times.

"The Raging Tiger Art was great but it shouldn't be that great should it?"

Bia Xiao continued walking, his bones started to heal with an itchy feeling that made him feel uncomfortable all over. After 15 days, he started to walk straight again, his face regaining so color and strength. On the 18th day, he started to run towards the light source despite the increase in blazing temperature.

The more the got to the light source, the more he felt good. It was amazing, every cell in his body cell to be shouting, his blood started to boil and the shocking thing was, he knew that the temperature was blazing hot and he could see the ripples of heat in the air but his body wasn't burnt, it was crazy.

The energy inside of his body surged, soaking through his skin, connecting to whatever it was that was deep within the cave, pulling, calling him.

"Damnit, If I die, I die"

Bia Xiao shouted as he pushed off the ground, his body started to run even fast with each cycle of the nameless energy. He felt excited as if he wanted to shout, wanted to roar a mad rage.

While running, he started to exercise in the Raging Tiger Art, fists started flying, kicks and turns were executed beautifully. Every muscle on his body was pushed to the limit, making strange turns and postures, his body felt truly alive at this moment.

"It was really the Raging Tiger Art, I can't believe it"

Bia Xiao shouted with heavy breaths without stopping even for a moment. The energy within his body seemed to be following a path that was unknown to him, the energy started from his left foot, flowing along his med section and connecting with his heart.

Once the energy made a connection with his heart, he heard a loud explosion inside his mind. Blood flow through his nose and his feel backward, passing out. 8 hours after, he slowly woke up, feeling his body as light as a feather.

The blood on his face hag dried up a long time ago. The heat in the cave increase to a shocking degree, his throat felt draw but it was passable.

"First stage Meridian opening realm. Is this for real"

Bia Xiao screamed as he checked his body's condition. He could sense a meridian chanelle flowing with energy from his left leg to his heart and back. With each flow, his heart seemed to be strengthened in some form of magical way.

"This is crazy. The Raging Tiger Art had such a wonderful effect. If I'd known this long ago, I would have trained day and night"

Bia Xiao was so excited, he could scream. The feeling his body gave him was absolutely the best. He felt the ugh to hit something and never stop hitting.

"This feels great. But what kind of meridian did I open, it started with the leg and not the meridians connecting to the center of the palms"

The Bia tribe martial arts warriors from generations past had be been focusing solely on the meridians that lead to the center of the palms. This was due to the fact that the fire element energy is best controlled and manipulated through the use of the hands.

"I wonder if I can control fire since I've now broken through. Those it is said that the hand meridian is the best for controlling fire, it wasn't the only way"

Bia Xiao took a deep breath, closing his eyes as he tried sensing the fire element in the air. After a few moments, he could feel a burning sensation in the air, his pores opened up as if wanting to suck in all of the fire elements in the air but suddenly his body felt distant.

It was a feeling of disconnection, an empty feeling of not belonging. A feeling of rejection.

"I'm being rejected by the laws"

This was the first thought that popped up in his mind. He had never heard such a thing before because even the other kids in the tribe could sense and absorb the fire element in the air even if they had opened a different meridian.

Thus the feeling of being rejected came as a sudden surprise and shock to him. It was never heard of, not to mention that his whole tribe was of the fire element linage thus this shouldn't have happened in the first place.

"Maybe I should get it another go"

Bia Xiao took a deep breath, settling his mind. The pores in his body opened up once again, attempting to absorb the fire element energy in the air. But once again like the first time, he felt a deep rejection that made his soul roar in rage.

The rage came from deep within him, something that he didn't even know he had within him.

Shhhh

Bia Xiao felt his head up and roared, he knew that was he was roaring at but the roar was to vent, vent and vent. Bia Xiao raised his foot and stomp the ground, cracks ran out like a spider web as the nameless energy surge and his boil starters to boil.

"Calm down, calm down"

Bia Xiao took a deep breath, his heart was pounding in his chest so hard that it gave the perception that it would explode anytime soon. After a few deep breaths, Bia Xiao continued to run towards the light source, his speed a little faster than normal.

After another two days of resting and running, Bia Xiao came upon a large opening that was blazing with fire and an overwhelming heart. The light within the opening was very bright with a blue flaming color.

"So bright and hot"

Bia Xiao could hardly see what was inside and he had a feeling that be might be burnt alive if he went any closer.

"What is this thing"

Bia Xiao covered his eyes with both hands. The walls around him were burning red with lava flowing on the ground inside the cave opening. Even the lava had a bluish color which made the scene seem dreamlike.

"Blue lava. This place is insane, how comes the elders didn't find this place. And it was so simple for me to do it. How strange"

Bia Xiao took a deep breath, he stood within the heat for a full 3 hours before his eyes got used to the bright light. The heat rising out of the lava had finally started to burn his skin but slowly, it was as if the heat was being pulled out and into his body. Within seconds, black sticky substances started to surface on his skin.

"Impurity cleansing"

Bia Xiao took a deep breath, his eyes started to shine with a light of excitement. How hard was it to cleanse the body of impurities, extremely hard, if one didn't have herbs and spiritual pills to aid them in this endeavor, then it was next to building a body of block meridians and weak foundation.

The meridian's opening realm focuses on opening 10 meridians to form a qi sea. Once a person formed their qi sea, then that person would have then stepped through the gates of the Master realm. From there they would have to focus on cleansing the impurities inside of their bodies to make smooth breaths to the next level.

The Master realm could also be called the foundation realm whereas the meridian opening realm could be called the opening the door to a new road. So ones the door is opened, one must set the foundations.

"The lava looks hot but it seems as if the energy inside of my body is of the same nature"

Bia Xiao came to a conclusion after sensing the energy for a while. He didn't know much about practicing martial art but it at least knew enough to let him understand a few things. These were all the knowledge given to him by his father.

"I've only been practicing the Raging Tiger Art for four years now, but still, I've yet to advance to the second level of the Raging Tiger Art. How much stronger would I come if I did"

Bia Xiao thought to himself as he sat cross leg, this was the first time he truly decided to study what was really inside this manual his father gave to him. In the past, he had only flipped through the first few pages and didn't really have it much thought.

The reason being was that it was just a manual found by his dad by chance and couldn't be of great value at all. His did just was at the Master realm and while his mom was at the 8th stage of meridian opening. Thus they never paid much attention to this manual either and gave it to him on a whim.