章 8: Completing Six of Eight Gates

Shiva's mind returned to his body

"Well... That was enlightening! In the future I need to make sure to keep to myself and not put myself in the position where I'd get emotionally hurt again."

"Anyway, let's finish this gate"

Shiva immediately started to work on polishing the Gate of Opening.

The Ki in the Gate of Opening began churring and dashing side to side trying to find a way to complete it's cycle.

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The Ki began to shoot wildly towards the Gate of View.

The last of the first six Eight Inner Hidden Gates, the Gate of View, located at the back of the body, is able to increase one's defense.

This gate is relatively easy to open because, the next two gates are the most unforgiving and cruel on the body.

Now, you might be wondering why he started to open up the gates before he tempered his body?

When Shiva wished for an extremely adaptable body, meaning that, the more training and pain he goes through, the greater it will benefit his body. So, when he begins to temper his body with his internal Ki, with his already strong meridians, he will be able to withstand the influx in potent Ki.

The Ki began swimming towards his back and started to tap on the gate of View. Even though opening this gate isn't very difficult, it requires precise control of his internal strength, in order not to push too far ahead towards the Gates of Life and Death.

This Ki finally pushed opened the gate of View and then stopped abruptly.

"Lets stop here and begin consolidating my foundation"

Shiva began to circulate his Ki the way the Clear Meridian Physique manual instructed him to do.

Soon, a dim light swam around his body and poling around his lower abdomen.

"Hua~"

"I've opened the initial gates, but there seems to be a problem... That's right! I've yet to become a real martial artist. I need to build up my internal Ki much as possible to be able to utilize my body correctly.

"I've have immense strength, superhuman regenerative agility, and a peak human body. But compared to those old monsters of those sects that I've read about, I'm at the bottom of the strength ranking."

Shiva began to realize that the little strength he currently has is nothing compared to those sect geniuses and masters.

"New plan! I will only focus on my body for the time being. Only when my body is invincible, will I cultivate my internal Ki, then when my internal Ki reaches an invincible stage, I will work on my magus talents.

"I need a weapon. preferably a sword, but what kind of sword?"

Shiva began pondering what type of wooden sword he needs to make himself. There are all kinds of swords from the Broadsword, Longsword, Double Edged long sword, and Great-sword.

"Those are all nice swords and all, but the Japanese swords from my past life are a whole lot better in terms of cutting, flexibility, and design. so I'll create a version of a Japanese sword."

Suddenly, Shiva remembered that he has the same skills and understanding of the sword from Licht and Tokikaze.

"There are a lot of skills from those two monster's. let me see...let's read them out of the manual in my head.