6 Sea of Consciousness

Boom*

As Arnulfo raised his one feet and about to try manipulating his lightning to speed up, a loud explosion suddenly occurred, yet this time, other than the earthquake, a white figure with a great speed accompanied by strong wind blasted towards his position. Hopefully, he accidentally used his power at the right moment and dodged the white thing in just a matter of seconds. If he was late in just one millisecond, it would be a different story.

"What the HELL!!? " Unfortunately, although he successfully dodged the thing from hitting him, he found himself lost in control and was sent to nowhere.

Boom*

Just like lightning, he was flying at a speed that naked eyes can't see. The gust of the wind was so strong yet the speed him was also strong that making his face ugly because of the contradiction of two forces. Just imagine yourself popping your head out from the window of a moving car at a fast speed and facing the wind. That was how funny his face as he was went flying to an unknown range.

Clang*

After just a few seconds, he already reached a kilometer and only stopped after hitting several lighting trees that blocking his way. Tho he stopped, because of the speed he was, he received an amount of damage, with a bruise all over his body and even some broken bone everywhere.

"If I knew that several unfortunate things would happen after entering this bullshit place, I would never set afoot here! " Although that was what he said, he still knew inside him that he went here with all this at his expectations. Of course, he had thought that things should never be easy for him to achieve his goal, he just uttered those words merely out of anger. He doesn't have any regret for real and even if he could come back to the past, he once again will decide to enter. At the end of the day, no pain no gain...

Caught*

"It seems I got big damage this time! " He exclaimed as to be coughed a mouthful of fresh blood. His body wasn't immortal or indestructible, of course, how though the trees were? Coughing blood was a light consequence.

He sat down on the ground first to ease the pain. He raised his hand and wiped the blood at the corner of his mouth. After that, he lowered his head and looked at the trace of blood in his palm that he just wiped from his mouth, "A fresh blood! " He said as he sighed.

'I think this sounds familiar! '

He said to his mind, remembering what had happened when he was hiking. It seemed history repeats itself for real. He can only laugh bitterly while trying to reach his back to touch the certain corner where he was feeling the pain.

'Might as well meditate first to recover my internal and external injuries! '

Based on his experience or past knowledge, there were two types of injuries that people could get, it was either internal or external. And at his current state, he has both. There were bruises all over his body, cuts, and dark violet spots, and at some time, broken bones at the back after hitting the unknown number all through lightning trees.

One of the best ways to heal damages that cultivators have was a meditation -although he wasn't sure about this assumption- that was how it works in what he read from novels from his former life.

Without even care what was the white thing that almost hit him (And he have no time to think about it at this moment) and also caused him to accidentally used the lightning manipulation skill that resulted in him taking all these damages, he first forcefully stood up while in pain to find a safe place to have a rest.

The top of the mountain was dark and blurry because of the crowd of clouds, he has no idea what was the time now, however, having doing activities this long, although his physical body still can keep up yet his spirit was weakening as time goes by. He also needed some true rest to regain his energy.

You can say that he can just let the lightning strike at him and collect energy from it, but things always weren't as easy as humans expecting. Sometimes, although you have the energy, doesn't mean you don't need to take a rest then, because your spirit was loosening If you didn't take proper rest. No physical pain doesn't mean exhaustion.

Having said that, after just a few minutes of walking in a wonky manner, he found a hidden nature cave made of roots of huge lightning trees not that far away. This place was almost hidden that if he didn't give a full concentration, it was impossible to find this place.

Without any second thought, he went inside without, thinking that there shouldn't be any danger waiting inside.

Inside the cave, the wind was trapped and the noise from the thunder and lightning was being minimized. It felt uncomfortable at first tho because it felt like the world suddenly turned quiet, yet after a while, he also got used to the new place and only then he started his meditation.

He first let his negative thoughts and feeling let go by inhaling deep for an unknown of times, after that sitting in a cross leg, he shut his eyes and spread his consciousness to be one with nature. 

As he closed his eyes and calmed himself down, he found himself entered into a deep concentration and he appeared in his sea of consciousness. As it was called, he appeared in a place where no one exists other than a vast range or even limit the range of blue calm sea without any waves, he was standing without shrinking at the surface at the middle of the sea.

"So, this is the sea of consciousness? "

Just as a question popped out in his mind, the sky suddenly turned cloudy just like the sky outside, caused thunder before the lightning started to strike the water, which caused a disturbance and waves occurrence.

Mysteriously, the place where the lighting descending was specific and only at one area, at the other side of me. "Is this lightning the qi or energies I am accumulating from the meditation? " This was the best reason he came up to and bother nothing the next second, he just sat there and watch the lightning, maybe he could get another enlightenment.

Not long after, the place where the lightning kept striking, suddenly, a little ball made of pure lightning qi formed, yet it didn't fit in that size because as lightning kept striking it, the ball was turning bigger and big.