21 The difficulties that a cultivator must go through in order to be strong.

A cultivator's journey is difficult, no matter if he has a background behind him or how talented he is, at one time or another he will find something that is difficult to overcome.

Some manage to overcome these difficulties and advance towards their future, while others fall before these difficulties and die or become stagnant.

In a way, a cultivator is no different than a mortal.

And I am currently in a difficult situation. I can give up and gain nothing or I can move on, suffer and have a minimum gain.

Giving up is very tempting, but I won't.

The difficult situation I find myself in is due to the combination of the two temperament techniques. My body has no impurities, something that is usually inconseivable, but the combination of my divine body and the various items that Mom and Dad gave me since birth allowed me to be one of the few people who achieved this feat.

So why am I in a difficult situation?

Well, one of the uses of temperament is to rid the body of impurities, but my body does not have them ...

So from the moment I started to season my body, the ice froze anything that couldn't resist it and the water cleared out anything that seems to be bad for the body.

And the only bad thing in my body right now is the ice ... So right now the water is trying to clear the ice from my body ...

Can you imagine the unbearable pain I'm feeling right now? ...

When I breathe it is as if I am breathing thorns, when I move I feel as if my body is breaking as if I were a statue.

This was all the result of my first day of temper training. Instead of feeling strong, I feel sick, weak and fragile.

I am sitting with my legs on a lotus in a small house that Mom and Uncle Mao made next the freezing lake.

The house has only one room and at my request it is filled with ice, there is nothing warm inside it, the only thing inside is food as cold as an ice pack and clothes so thin that they increase the cold instead to diminish it.

Despite not having the same effect as the lake, it still allowed me to continue the freezing winter's temper.

My skin is a little cracked, the pain I feel every moment is even greater than when I awoke my divine body. When I awoke the divine body the cold was so great that I felt nothing but now it is different, anything I do is accompanied with an extreme pain that I have never felt in any of my lives.

I know Mom is close, ready to interfere if she sees that I can't take it anymore.

I get up slowly from the bed, my movements as slow as a slug. I take a glass of water and take a small sip, which I immediately regret, the water is actually as cold as the water the lake.

I gasped before throwing up a lot of blood on the floor of the house. The blood was strange, it is not a blood red color but a light red almost reaching white with large pieces of ice floating on top of the blood.

I felt the little blood that had in my body to stop circulating, the fear that I feel at this moment is inexplicable.

I never imagined that the ice could be so scary. Of course, I have faced many ice users in my second life, but even when I took a direct attack I was not in this state.

Before I can think of how to overcome this situation, a small bell rang softly in the room, which made it even worse.

This bell is the warning that the rest time is over and that I must return to the lake. Time went by very quickly ... It was as if I had only stayed for a while, but in fact the whole day has passed.

The scholar gave the idea of ​​training the night so it could give a better result, since the night is known as a synonym for woman, ice and Ying.

As we saw no problem with it and in a way it seemed like a good idea, we decided to do it, but now I'm regretting it.

With my body so frozen, my steps were as slow as a slug, but I reached the lake after a few minutes. I took off all my clothes again and dived into the icy lake.

The ice outside my body seemed to hit the ice inside me, which increased my pain. I recited all the steps of the temperament technique again and continued on my way down.

On the first day I reached 50 meters, but with my body in that state I only reached 10 meters before feeling that I could barely take it anymore. I sat on the platform made by Mom and started to continue reciting each part of the two techniques.

Unlike when I'm at the house, the time in the lake felt incredibly long, as if I had spent days in the lake, when in fact it was 12 hours.

When I left the lake with Mom's help I thought I had spent at least 5 days in the lake ... And when I returned to the house to rest, even though in the back of my mind I know that I rested for 12 hours, my body and my mind can barely imagine that I rested for 2 hours.

But I didn't have time, I dived into the lake again. The temper started and I thought days passed, after I finished I went back to the room again. I was barely able to rest before I went back to torture.

This continued and without realizing it I lost track of time, my brain could no longer correctly register the concept of time, in fact even other thoughts were being stopped and the only thing I thought about was the temperament technique.

I stopped counting how many times I entered the water when my dives passed the 30 mark.

I don't know when it started, but every hour blood was released from my mouth, eyes and ears, my skin was cracked and soon filled with ice, my long black obsidian hair froze before breaking, my nails turned a light blue color .

When I looked at myself on an ice wall, I got scared. I was bald, my lips were freezing blue, my purples eyes looked lifeless and surrounded by blue lines, my skin so white and brittle that you could see the light blue veins.

I looked so sick that I almost gave up on continuing with this temperament technique. But after remembering all the suffering I am having, I refused the thought of giving up.

The only thing I'm sure of my suffering only got worse from the first day, whether inside or outside the lake. I only remained motivated thanks to the fact that I was able to dive deeper and deeper, at this moment I reached 100 meters.

According to the small calculations, at a depth of 100 meters I am under a pressure of 11 atm (1 that everyone already has and 1 every 10 meters), which is practically 11 tons of pressure.

But I know that this is not my limit.

...

I continued my routine of going in and out of the lake to season, the changes in my body were more and more evident, my skin took on a bluish color, my hair has not yet grown back and my nails have turned white. I no longer bleed through my body, what came out was ice instead.

I no longer used clothes either inside the house or on the lake and I realized that the only parts that still had the same color were my private parts, that actually turned even more pink.

Anyway, another change I had was in my vision, I can see certain sparkles in the air and sometimes everything turns blue just like when I am in the water.

I don't know what's going on with me, but I didn't give up and kept going.

My depth reached 300 meters, which is actually not even half. This lake has a depth of 1000 meters.

...

Another long time has passed and more notable changes have happened to me. I gave up living outside the lake, when I am out of it the pain is very great, different from when I am in it the pain becomes bearable. By the Way, Mom always brings me food down here.

My bluish skin started to get lighter and clearer, showing that I am slowly returning to normal.

I reached 500 meters deep and the pain is getting less and less, I can dive to the bottom faster and faster.

My blood is no longer ice, is more like water. It seems that the ice inside me is melting little by little.

Despite not being able to see all of my appearance, I know that I no longer look sickly.

Anyway, I'm going to dive even deeper today.

...

When I reached 700 meters the pain that I no longer felt started to attack me again, but I was not bothered by it. I got used to this pain.

I stopped noticing any changes I had when I reached 800 meters.

At 900 meters the cold and the pressure was so great that I felt some parts of my body break and freeze.

I knew that the cold in this depth has passed the limit that a water can handle before turning solid, somehow the cold has passed that limit a lot it andhas continued as a liquid.

But I stopped thinking about it and concentrated entirely on temper myself.

After 900 meters, each meter seemed an unbearable torture compared to the first days. After 950 meters the pain I felt went beyond the limit I could take and I often screamed, blood ran down my skin, but I did not give up and Mom did not withdraw it me either.

After 980 to 999 meters living was a complete suffering, again it was no longer blood that came out of me, but complete ice. I seemed to have created an ice path with the amount that I released.

And when I reached 1000 meters deep, I vomited and released many frozen things that I have no idea what they are.

Despite the clear pain that passed my pain limit a lot, my body was not pious and continued to make me vomit many other things.

When I stopped, I felt extremely weak and fragile, but that was not the end.

I saw my skin explode leaving only my flesh in the water, and again despite having lost all my skin what came out was not blood, but water.

I don't know how much time has passed again, but my strength has recovered and despite being in such a strange situation, I started the fifth part of my temper.

The fifth part of the temperament of the Freezing Winter and "water" is much more difficult than just tempering the body ... It asks us to temper the mind, the meridians and the Dantian.

Despite being scared, I did not give up. I did not go through all this suffering to give up, from the beginning I told myself not to give up at that moment.

I let the ice and water into my whole, it was as if I mixed the water entirely, as if I became one with it. I have managed to do this since I passed the 100 meters deep, but this was the first time I did it because that is the temperament method of the fifth part.

When the water and the cold entered me despite the pain being great, I was used to it. I felt my brain being frozen by water and my thoughts stopped. I felt parts where the cold and the water could never reach, to be filled by the cold and the water.

I felt something in my abdomen being filled and frozen. And again as always, I did not feel my connection with time, everything went so slowly while I was in this state of "bearable" suffering.

When I started thinking again, I realized that the cold no longer bothered me anymore, the water felt like a second house to me.

Looking to the side was Li Xue and the little seed of life, they looked different than before, the little seed grew considerably while Li Xue was much like before, only that his eyes became a darker blue and his skin looked more alive. The two spirits were releasing a cold aura that didn't affect me, in fact it made me comfortable.

Looking at my skin it was completely normal and no longer the blue it used to be. I felt a little weight on my head and when I looked at the sky I saw my long hair floating towards the sky.

I remember what I read in the book. The 5th phase of two technical is known as "Temperament of the mind, of the meridian and of the Dantian".