4 Chapter 3 Mana
Ray was back in his home after being discharged from the hospital. He was back in their 30 ft apartment that has a second floor with the same size. And the location of his apartment was one of the slums in the metro. There was constant drinking and fighting outside and even during the day the people outside were being controlled by their vices.
The air pollution is so dense that the mana is not effective.
"Ughhh how the hell did I survive up until this day"Ray thought as he sits by the their small living room. Its been 3 weeks since he went back in time and his mana condensation had been failing and failing many times.
Asides from that he got his last pay from his job last week and their budget is running low. He only received $7000 and on his estimate they spend $300 per day on meals ,his children fares and allowance to school.
Luckily he still have 2 weeks before going to work. Right now I need to strengthen my control on mana, but it would be difficult if his meridians are not opened to use for mana control.
As for the 12 major meridians he first needs to open his heart. The heart is the pump and the center of the mana gathering technique taught by the sainte race. the difficulty of opening the heart meridian is like a turtle walking on land.
Ray remembered that he has to run and fall many times during the mana test many years ago, only his drive and perseverance later helped him open the path on his cultivation.
"Ray its already 10! Can you go the market and buy 3 pounds of pig meat!"
Ray heard his wife as he was trying to restart his cultivation plan.
"Sigh- I love my family but this is the reason I cant start my path..."
Everytime he practice he reckons he needs at least 8 hours straight to succesfully open his mana path.
But with the kids playing almost nonstop and the noise around his house makes it almost impossible to focus and concentrate.
"coming up my darling! Asides from pig meat what else would you like me to buy?"
"Please buy some garlic , onions, potatoes and lettuce then dont forget some pig stock. Is pig soup okay with you?"
"Sure that would be no problem." Ray smiled as he reached on her wife's walllet and got $200 to buy food.
While ray was walking towards the wet market he saw many people he was familiar with. There's Johnny Jr. A fat man that smelled like he never took a bath.
"I remember that he also survive the undead plague and winter plague..." Ray thought as he saw his old friend. This friend of his has no kids and never marrier because of his bad habits.
Oh there is also a youth named jordan, the youth was playing basketball and his height is more than 6'4 ft tall. And he is only 16!
Ray remembered that this kid led the local people on the undead plague and became a mana foundation soldier, too bad that after reaching that level the bad side of life caught up to him. which were girls,alchol and fame that twisted his mind.
At the wet market a familiar feeling arose as he was looking at the place. Yes this now feels really at home.
Every day he was incharge of buying food to cook for his wife as the latter needs to attend to their children's needs. He had almost forgotten the feeling of having a tight budget daily so his family can eat delicious food.
After buying some food to cook, he went back immedietely to his humble home and started practicing mana gathering, but this time it would be different.
Tight budget,less than quality mana.
Spending their budget on quality food.. Huh?
"Mana is eveywhere but so is money.. If I can find a way to tighten my budget to produce a much clearer quality of mana using my body it would enable me to be like that dark entity."
Ray taught about this and slowly remembered how the dark entity gathered mana on his finger tips, then condensed it into a tiny ball but the process of filtering made it difficult as the area around him is unstable and so little.
Gather mana, condense mana, filter mana then restart the whole process again.
Suddenly he felt a small spark within his body.
"Woahh." Ray felt excited on starting a new cultivation. he doesn't know what it could lead him to since he only had a couple of seconds to see that entity perform a mana blast towards him!
He felt the filtered mana within his body just below his solar plexus. Using his mind and mana control , he guided the filtered mana towards his diaphragm.
"Ughhhh" Ray clenched his teeth as the pain of having a filtered mana is causing his organs inside to cramp. "Not there yet.. I can still do it!"
Ray focused and refiltered the filtered mana.
Another hour passed, Ray had done the steps four times making the remaining mana as blue as the sky. The purer the mana the bluish it became!
The purer it is,the more powerful can it become!
Ray tried again until he refiltered it for 10 times!
The drop of mana now hovers inside his body above the heart meridian!
He then began on his organs!
He used the filtered mana to cover his organs. the mana then began on chipping away all the dirt his body has accumalated.
His body started secreting black inky subtance covered his body. all the toxins and dirt were released at once forming a stency odor that spread inside the house!
Ray smiled while sitting on the floor. Got you!
