Chapitre 6: Dao Heart
"My goon, you're good?"
"Uhh... Yes, I'm fine. It's just one of my knees, no big deal."
Me Feng cringed as Li Yuan tried to put back his left knee to its original position. It looked like a misplaced, bent limb. Not humane at all. He wondered if it could function like a nunchaku...
He looked at Li Yuan, who was sobbing. Me Feng couldn't hold on anymore. As a Boss, how could he ignore his goon's dislocated knee? Wouldn't that make his goon question his integrity?
"Let me help."
"Uh, what? Wait, Boss, I don't think—"
Unfortunately, Me Feng underestimated the potency of his intrusive thought. As soon as he got his hands on Li Yuan's knee, he impulsively swung it around, and it did! The knee rotated!
"Holy sh—"
"KYAAAAAKH—!!"
After a while, a guilty Me Feng patted Li Yuan on his back as he applied an ointment to the knee. It was something he got from the monkey's handbag. Unfortunately, other than that and a couple of silver taels, that guy had nothing.
"So, uh, you're alright?"
"...Please Boss, I-I don't think you're fit to be a doctor. Just who in their right mind would rotate a knee?"
Me Feng patted his back again, "You won't understand."
Li Yuan cursed incessantly. F*ck understand it, I want to see what would happen to you if I rotate your knees.
Unfortunately, Me Feng was his boss. Li Yuan was sad for a moment.
"Anyway, let us treat your other bones—"
"No! Don't! J-Just carry me to my dwelling and let my servants take care of it!"
Me Feng was taken aback. This Li Yuan was just an Outer Disciple, yet he had some servants? Li Yuan noticed his boss's surprise, and a sense of pride peaked.
"Daily needs require a lot of time and effort, so of course, I can't be distracted by such mundane things. As a cultivator, what mattered the most was your relation with heaven and earth!"
Me Feng felt disdainful when Li Yuan tried to pose. Even if you want to show off, at least make it cool. What relation between heaven and earth? Can they talk to you? Can they be f*— Me Feng paused. You talked like that, yet you didn't even cook with your 20 years wife? What embarrassment!
He felt depressed suddenly. Thankfully, his heart has his back, giving him the necessary fighting spirit to reach the height of his wife!
"You're wrong. What mattered the most for a cultivator was their dao heart. It was their goals that could push them through their limits! Their will that would not be broken no matter what they must face! What relation between heaven and earth? Cultivators are beings who defy the heavens! So unless you bent your knees to your undeserved fate, heaven and earth would always be your lifelong rivals!"
Li Yuan was awestruck as he looked at Me Feng, who looked like a melancholic immortal gazing at the sky. Cultivators defying heaven and earth! Heaven and earth as lifelong rivals!
He was enlightened. Turns out, his Boss had long been considering other matters as insignificant. After all, a cultivator essentially defied the heavens by absorbing the qi of heaven and earth.
Such insight! Such an outlook! Li Yuan, despite his knee getting rotated, was filled with admiration. This is someone he hailed as his Boss!
He inwardly sneered at those descendants of those forces. You guys have no idea what you've missed out this whole time!
Me Feng didn't try to pose. After all, what's the difference between his wife and the heaven? They're similar in terms of distance. It was also why his dao heart was very strong. This fighting spirit and conviction seemed to burn ablaze no matter what he did!
No one could compare in spirit to a lovestruck fool!
"Li Yuan, do not immerse yourself in things that seemed to be grand but had no essence. Before you wish to ingrain them within your mind, always question your dao heart first. Was it right? Was it in line with your path? Cultivation is an exhausting, never-ending path. You cannot be lost in the way of cultivation. Because if you ever got lost... Who knows if you could get right on track ever again, considering how utterly long, painful, despairing, complicated, and vast the path was?"
These words are not something Me Feng intended to construct. It came from his weary heart, who had undergone such a long, painful road of love that did not even have a destination. But in his despair, the destination turned out to be another path, the path that showed just how utterly despairing and hopeless the way was just for his destination. It showed him the true form of the path that he had been suffering on this whole time.
But in the end, his dao heart triumphed over. It did not wish to give up. It wished to hang on, and fearlessly undertake this impossible road!
All because of his wish to meet the angel he regarded as his wife!
His body suddenly became still, and a burst of aura shook Li Yuan to his core. He looked at his Boss in shock, "Is this... The legendary Perfect State of the Heart?"
The Perfect State of the Heart is a condition where a cultivator witnessed the horror of the path of cultivation, and has the willpower to undertake it! It was legendary because for most cultivators, witnessing the true form of the despairing path of cultivation was enough to break their dao hearts.
How long was the path of cultivation? Just how many hurdles do they have to overcome in order to reach their final destination? How many years of suffering and pain does one have to endure just for the sake of staying on it? This state also has another title.
The Path of Death!
Most cultivators despaired at the sight of this path. After all, how could they, mere posers, could withstand the pressure the path of cultivation exuded? In most cases, their dao hearts would break, and they would self-destruct on the spot.
That's why many cultivators always contained their ambitions. If their dao heart contained aspirations too high for their standing, this path would descend, testing their will and spirit!
Li Yuan didn't know how many times he'd been impressed by his boss. He also understood why those Immortals saved him. Such a strong dao heart! To remain unwavering in the face of the path of cultivation!
"I'll be your trustworthy goon from now on, Boss!" Li Yuan felt honored, to witness the legendary Perfect State of the Heart with his own eyes!
Me Feng felt his heart beating. It was overbearing, as if questioning if anything could hold it down! Even when he witnessed the distance between him and his wife, even when he knew that he was just a mere mortal who aspired to be the husband of an immortal, it did not bend!
In this state, the clogs that existed within his body seemed to be unclogged. Qi incessantly entered his body. It flooded him! Enhancing his physique to achieve its peak form!
Within seconds, he surpassed the 3rd Stage of Body Reinforcement, Bone Refinement, and entered the Body Condensation phase!
4th Stage of Body Reinforcement!
5th Stage of Body Reinforcement!
6th Stage of Body Reinforcement!
His body was condensed to the point where it was hard as steel, and it did not stop there! As his body was perfected thoroughly, strengthening and enhancing his organs, muscles, senses, and bones, a vague line of meridians started to form.
7th Stage of Body Reinforcement, Meridians Formation!
In this state, Me Feng remained still. He was focused on his heart. The barbarous, bold beats it did fill his body with unstoppable momentum! The meridians were slowly but surely became clear. When half of the meridians became conspicuous, another surge of qi entered his body.
8th Stage of Body Reinforcement!
When his meridians were fully formed, Me Feng's body tensed up.
9th Stage of Body Reinforcement!
His meridian network has been completely formed, allowing him to circulate qi within his body.
The final stage of the Body Reinforcement realm was the Spiritual Awakening, when a cultivator awakened the source of spirit, which was their soul!
Ironically, this final stage that rendered many cultivators helpless was the easiest one for Me Feng. When his heart could manifest its will to resist against the cruel path of cultivation, his soul naturally followed the same!
With a burst of qi, a strange sense of consciousness that corporates the complete meridians into his body was awakened. It was only at this time that Me Feng opened his eyes.
He took a deep breath, feeling the surging power within his body. There were also additional parts that he could control to gather the qi from his surroundings. They are his meridians! Usable only because of the awakening of his spirituality!
In seconds, from the 3rd Stage of Body Reinforcement, he awakened his spirit, becoming a 10th Stage Body Reinforcement expert.
Me Feng's eyes are bright.
"B—Boss! Your goon admired you to death!!!"
Ignoring his jammed knees, Li Yuan wholeheartedly bowed to his boss. His eyes are filled with fervor. If you can become the subordinate of a being who could only be born once in who knows how many years, that would be a fortune equivalent to the luck gathered over ninety-nine generations!
Me Feng did not feel proud. The body Reinforcement realm was just the beginning of the long journey on the path of cultivation. He sighed. He still had a long way to go.
"Amazing! Boss, your goon, Li Yuan, was in awe— Ouegh!"
Me Feng paused. He glanced at the grunting Li Yuan with a conflicted expression. I do admire your wholeheartedness, but your knees... Me Feng shook his head. I offer my condole—
"What's going on here?"
Perhaps because Li Yuan's scream was too loud, but a person seems to notice their spot. Me Feng and Li Yuan, who were standing and bowing, turned their heads to the voice.
"S—Sect Leader?! W-What are you doing here?!"
Me Feng froze. He slowly glanced at Li Yuan, who had a shocked look on his face. This divine woman with black streaks on her white hair and a pair of starry, crimson eyes is our Sect Leader?! The prodigy who could contend against those old Sect Leaders at the age of 23?!
"Do not be afraid, disciples. The elders reported to me that a madman was out, terrorizing the peace of our Soaring Cloud Sect. It had screamed out its unbridled intentions, requiring me to put this into my agenda."
Her cold voice resounded in his ears. Me Feng widened his eyes as he stared at her. Divine temperament, cold exposition, prodigious to the extreme...
She couldn't be, right?
| A Villainess has been detected!
Me Feng's gaze turned strange. You wanted me to pursue my Sect Leader? That would be difficult, I'm afraid.
"Why do you look at me like that, disciple?"
Yu Minhe reverted her starry, crimson eyes to Me Feng, who froze in disbelieve.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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