Chapter 15 - Training

Kyle sat in the meditation position or better known as a lotus position with one leg over the other and back straight and relaxed. His pinky was touching the thumb, and the palm was facing the sky.

His head was straight with the eyes closed. He started breathing just like the book said.

'Exhale fully with a woosh sound. Breathe in with mouth on the count of 4 with a woah sound. Hold the breath for the count of 6. Exhale slowly on the count of 7 with a woosh sound.' This seemed to be too easy for Kyle to do. In the first 10 minutes of breathing as it described he had felt nothing, even worse his head starting spinning as he got too much oxygen into his body. He was about to lose consciousness, and as he was at his last moment, Kyle started sensing that with the air that he breathed in he was also bringing into his body a white speaks of light, most likely energy that was also exhaled out. Even though 99% of the energy was exhaled, 1% of it stayed, which allowed them to combine and form a tiny streak that was very slowly moving towards the dantian. Kyle was breathing all his life, but he never felt this energy before. This truly surprised him. Now he knew that it was working and he carried on breathing for the next 2 hours like this.

Next was the movement. Kyle was struggling to repeat from memory in what position and how to put his body in. Plus the Sing Lin in the recording has already mastered the whole technique so his movements were very swift and fluid, something that Kyle could not achieve no matter how he tried.

'It is as if I am dancing the tango and playing twi*ter at the same time. Very annoying, to say the least.' After around 5 hours of straight-up dancing like this and feeling no progress, Kyle was about to give up, but then he remembered what Sing Lin has told him. He couldn't just throw such a huge legacy away because he was tired. Kyle continued and decided to persevere until the moment he feels any changes. Also, Kyle always knew that cultivation in itself has never been easy for anyone, and to achieve higher levels, it will only get harder and harder. He had to get used to the sheer frustration and stillness of the progress.

After Kyle made this resolution as if the universe was waiting for him to give up and was testing him, white speaks of energy that he accumulated with his breathing started vibrating and made a direct beaming line that speed up nearly 10 times now from the lungs to the dantian.

This was the magical feeling Kyle was waiting for, he kept on practising like this, and he would have gone for the whole night if not for him using up all the energy that he collected through meditation.

The initial step of Dominion cultivation technique had a flaw that had to be solved as soon as possible. That was that one needed to meditate an equal amount of time to doing the movements as to have the energy to condense in the dantian. That was the reason that Seng Lin in the recording said to try to combine them both, the movements and the breathing together in at least 30 days.

After he has finished, he checked to see what has been the result of his training. When he scanned with his spiritual sense, he couldn't notice anything at first, but as he concentrated further, he could see that the qi that he was collecting was condensing into spiritual water that was rolling as if in the middle of a lake. This surprised Kyle as the energy he collected was more like air. Kyle wilded the energy to move out to him with his thoughts, and suddenly a tiny proportion started seeping into his body and his muscles, solidifying them and growing them. It was only a tiny proportion of the qi he collected, but the possibilities made Kyle ecstatic. 'If I can carry on doing this forever, I should be able to achieve an indestructible body. Even bullets would bounce off my skin!'

Kyle was extremely exhausted from the full day of practice, so he decided to stay here until he can combine the movement and the breathing. The Next day went the same way until the sunset, this time though Kyle has meditated more in the morning to store more energy. The problem was that his rate at which he was consuming energy while doing the movements also increased. This was due to his understanding of how to move gotten better now.

Right not the consumption of energy was 2x then before which meant that he could practice for much less. 'I need to combine the techniques to cultivate fast.' Kyle adjusted his breathing while standing straight. He closed his eyes and started doing the first movement. It was staggering. It was uncomfortable and most importantly, unnatural.

Breathing to the abdomen is very unnatural to humans on earth, either way, doing it while having to move in a specific pattern was even harder. After hours of struggling and twisting his ankles multiple time(due to loss of balance and concentration), Kyle finally was able to do one full set of movement while breathing. As Kyle finished the last move of the set with 'Haw' sound, he got another vision.

It was a dark plain, with everything the colour of black mud. Everything was still. The earth, the mountains and even the bodies that littered the ground. Even the blood of the fallen figures had a dark red colour and was nearly black. The sky was dark red colour as if lava was coming down from heaven instead of the sun. A figure suddenly appeared standing in the middle of the battlefield on the hill. He had a heavy sword the size of a human body resting on his shoulder. It was heavy as he was supporting it with 2 hands.

That person was none other than young Seng Lin that Kyle saw teaching the Dominion Technique to the child. Suddenly a huge roar resounded and the earth split. Countless monsters that looked like zombies and ghouls appeared from the earth. They were countless, and every piece of earth now was covered with them. The Seng Lin casually waved his sword and immense strength showed, mountains were split, and earth crumbled. Terrifying sword energy that was azure in colour was driving past the enemies and evaporating them completely. All of the zombies were killed just in simple 2 swings to either side. Even the sky itself was ripping from unbelievable strength that was being displayed.

The only living being left was the Seng Lin, that was still standing there without moving, and the figure that resounded the roar. That thing looked like a knight in black steel armour full of black skulls. Both of his eyes and hands had a blue flame coming off them as if ice fire was being produced from them. Suddenly Seng Lin jumped into the air and with incredible speed started rushing to the enemy. At the same time, the knight also jumped and rushed toward Seng Lin. Terrifying murderous aura was being produced by them both, the aura alone would off killed Kyle there.

Just as they were about to collide, everything went back to normal, and Kyle woke up standing in the same position when he finished his movement set. He felt that something inside of him has changed.

The look of astonishment was on his face, instead of a small river that had barely any water, a big lake was rolling inside with constant energy ripples being produced from it. He could feel that it allowed him to boost his strength even further. The main thing that Kyle had to focus on was to get to Qi refinement realm as soon as possible and to do that he needed all the Qi he could master.

Kyle went to sleep right away as the very next day he decided to explore the wilderness to finally find a settlement.