“Rattling, I misplaced once more,” I cursed as I processed the strikes. This previous man was a monster. I picked up the sport of Go when I was head of the Lucid River, and I sucked at it at first, however after a couple of years of enjoying I managed to develop into one of the best in the entire metropolis, individuals truly made travels simply to come back and play with me, but this man, he actually bested me a number of occasions now.

“Sure…you misplaced.” The person mentioned, however his expressions weren’t of somebody who had simply received. He appeared perplexed.

“How lengthy have you ever been enjoying?” he requested.

“A couple of years now.”

“A couple of years… I have been honing my abilities for lots of of years, and I may say that amongst all my friends on this sect, uncommon are those that handle to play so long as you probably did in opposition to me. I am impressed together with your pondering course of.”

“It is only a recreation. Nothing to be so vexed about.”

The previous man shook his head, “You are utilizing mortal strikes in opposition to me. Should you have been to make use of your cultivation, this recreation would flip otherwise.”

I frowned, “How is that even doable, to make use of cultivation in a recreation of go?”

“It is somewhat easy, you see, proper now, you are utilizing your mind, your thoughts, your mortal thoughts to play. Not the cultivator’s thoughts, you are pondering course of in comparison with mine might be a number of occasions slower. However when you have been to make use of a cultivator’s mindset to play, you will begin seeing strikes that you haven’t earlier than and uncover methods you haven’t considered earlier than.”

“I feel I perceive, however I do not know on the best way to faucet onto that pondering course of.”

“It is not one thing that may be taught, you will must determine it out by yourself. It is a sort of expertise, and while you’re in a position to make use of it, you can see the world anew.”

“Proper, I will maintain it in thoughts. So how about one other recreation?”

“Proper, let’s go once more.”

The previous man started setting the small items and we began enjoying. As we went on, I thought of how he talked about utilizing the mindset of a cultivator. For me, proper now, the right transfer can be to barricade a bunch of his items and block his advance, that is the optimum transfer. If I have been to do this, I will nonetheless be on the defensive, unable to assault, and he’ll nonetheless have the higher hand…I would like a transfer that would flip the tables.

—

As Shen Bao was pondering, he by no means observed a inexperienced aura abruptly starting to overlap and coalesces in opposition to his entire physique. Elder Yun was bowled over however he had a brilliant smile on his face. One other individual got here from behind Shen Bao, it was the elder of the second flooring of the Purple Cloud Pavilion.

Simply as he was about to talk, Elder Yun gestured for him to cease. No matter was taking place with Shen Bao was one thing that he did not have to be distracted from.

Yun determined it was time for him to make a transfer in retaliation to Shen Bao’s seemingly reckless piece that was positioned in a clumsy place with none prior thought or present aim or goal.

Yun continued enjoying, laying out an ideal offense, however Shen Bao was retaliating with a weak protection, Yun knew that Shen Bao was not somebody weak on the recreation, as he had already performed in opposition to him a couple of rounds earlier than, so this weak gameplay was a prep for one thing. But Yun may by no means see what.

Shen Bao was nonetheless immersed in his personal world, a wierd feeling the place each time he moved a bit he would see virtually all of the corresponding strikes that ought to observe, and each time Yun would place his personal items Shen Bao would work out what the Elder needed to do.

Shen Bao stored inserting awkward items and stopping Yun’s strikes with defensive strikes that appeared amateurish and unworthy of a superb Go participant. But one piece remained within the desk that was nonetheless unused, it was the primary piece that Shen Bao had positioned. Yun was nonetheless pondering on how Shen Bao was going to make use of that piece and commenced dedicating defensive constructions to carry off any items to be constructed round that one.

Because the recreation began, Shen Bao has been centered on the desk and by no means lifted his head up, so when he did, Yun was shaken to his core. Shen Bao’s solely eye had a inexperienced lustrous gentle, virtually like a shiny emerald within the depth of the night time.

“They are saying that dragons by no means die…It is a lie!” and he slammed a bit the place Yun by no means anticipated, stopping a powerful chain of items and on the similar time switching the entire recreation.

The entire board modified and Yun’s superb offensive has fully been damaged. Studying the desk Yun started to chuckle, there was no means for him to come back again from this.

“I resign! You win.”

“That was a superb recreation!”

—

I appeared on the desk and smiled, the pondering technique of a cultivator, it is somewhat addictive. If I have been in a position to make use of this extra typically and in a particular scenario I may give you an awesome many methods to assist me domesticate. I can already see the advantages this might convey me.

Pondering at this frequency would imply that I may discover the optimum means and technique to flow into vitality, discover options out of issues and are available on prime in each single encounter or dilemma.

However there’s one little inconvenience.

My head started to harm like a motherfucker.

It spun because the world began turning white.

“Drink this,” mentioned Yun as he handed me a cup of tea.

A single sip is all I wanted to clear my thoughts and chase the headache away.

“What’s on this?”

“It is a thoughts southing recipe. Manufactured from a particular religious herb, it helps calm the thoughts and restore vitality as soon as drunk.” Yun replied.

“Many thanks,” I replied.

“No drawback, inform me how was it? The primary time you used your Thoughts’s True Eye.”

“The what now?”

“Thoughts’s eye, Thoughts’s True Eye, it has many names, however it primarily is a pondering course of the place you take away the bounds imposed upon your thoughts to momentarily improve your intelligence.”

“Properly, it was painful, however I am positive I will be utilizing it typically.”

“Good, I will make you an order on the Pavilion so you will get the Thoughts Southing tea. You must use the Thoughts’s Eye as typically as doable, it too will be cultivated and might improve in efficiency and energy. Some legends say that you could possibly even see the longer term in case your thoughts’s eye is robust sufficient, however these are simply myths. Now, how about one other recreation?”

“Cough!” I heard a cough and turned to appreciate that the second-floor elder had been standing right here for some time.

“Elder Zhang, why have you ever come right here?”

“Properly, you guys have been right here for some time… and I bought bored.”

“Proper, then come be a part of us, you need a drag?” elder Yun mentioned as he handed elder Zhang his pipe.

“Yeah, however do not dose it an excessive amount of, I am not that good with the Joyful Weed.”

“Wuss,” mentioned Elder Yun jokingly and handed the previous man his personal pipe.

I additionally used mine, fortunately I discovered the best way to management my poison Qi and used a small flame to gentle my very own smoking pipe. The three of us continued chatting because the solar got here down.

Days have passed by, and in them, I’d all the time discover time to satisfy up with Elder Yun and Elder Zhang, we play a couple of video games of Go, discuss concerning the cultivation world and the sect, and likewise apply cultivation. In these occasions I managed to achieve the Peak of the center degree of Qi condensation.

My pace of cultivation was fortunately fairly excessive, all because of the Joyful Weed’s poisonous nature which now I discovered on the best way to dry. My solely problem was the place to place the herbs so nobody would steal them, and Elder Yun supplied to have my Herbs dried in his personal abode.

The Poison God’s e-book opened up a brand new web page for me. However this one was somewhat aimed for information, Religious Herbs. And an enormous checklist of them, all of them rank from the ninth degree to the seventh. Of which I’ve seen a small sum on the Religious Herb mountain of the Purple Cloud Sect, however the overwhelming majority was so amazingly massive that it might take an individual ages simply to memorize them.

However surprisingly, utilizing the Thoughts’s Eye proved to be extraordinarily useful. It took me two weeks to totally digest the information on the ninth degree Religious Herbs, their utilization, origin, and technique to rework them right into a capsule. The teachings of the Poison God is nice because it exhibits the right approach to develop into an Alchemist, or as the right title within the Poison God’s e-book, a Receptarier.

But sadly I haven’t got the qualification, I have to no less than be within the Core Formation degree and have my core form itself right into a Dantian, which is sort of a gigantic battery the place I may maintain an excellent larger portion of Poison Qi hidden and prepared to be used.

One of the best ways to explain it might be that the Dantian is an elusive organ of kinds, it does not exist within the realm of the bodily. However extra on a religious degree, it is an organ that connects all the meridians and harnesses the vitality that circulates by means of them and saves it inside it. Breaking by means of to increased ranges of cultivation would require this Dantian to take a number of and completely different kinds. Which I’ve no have to know of proper now, as I nonetheless want to achieve Basis Constructing earlier than I obtain Core formation.

As soon as I completed with my research, I headed out, it must be time for me to hang around with Elder Yun and Elder Zhang. However simply as I got here out, a closely crushed Meng Hao was unconscious at my doorsteps.

I crouched down and held his head from the again, “Hey, child what’s flawed?”

Meng Hao’s eyes have been out of focus however they locked onto me for a second, “Signior Disciple Han…he…”

And instantly, the child fell unconscious once more.

“Shit.” I cursed as I picked up the child then took him to the pavilion.