Chapter 11: Academy Stairs: First challenge
"You mean the academy?" Wu Shuang probed.
"Yeah!" Qin Lin shrugged.
He just looked around and couldn't see anything. But it didn't take long for him to see as the scene before him changed.
"Huh!" He was still in a daze, but looking into the distance, Wu Shuang could see a majestic gate that stood at the top of the two towering mountains.
"Is that gate in the sky?" he couldnt help but exclaim.
"This place is not bad! As long as you enter this place it won't be a problem to open up your dantian!" A voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Master! What do you mean?" He suddenly become alart.
"I told you that opening dantian was that most important step right?" She asked as though it was a small issue.
"You didn't say that!" He retorted.
"Well! The world is no longer what it used to be! To open the dantian we will have to use some tricks. But the environment in this place is just right. But don't worry, you won't die. I can guarantee this." The moment he heard this, he felt something was not right.
As he was pondering over his master's words, Qin Lin finally let the massive Wolf land.
Her figure and Wu Shuang appeared on the ground. The next moment, the massive wolf vanished before turning into a stream of light. He looked at the small pouch hanging at her waist.
"Stop looking! That is a beast bag. But you should stop dreaming about acquiring something like this with your poor cultivation." It was indeed the voice in his head.
As the two walked, a shout from the distance caught their attention.
"Sister Qin! Brother Wu Shuang!" Fu Qing actually shouted their names casually.
Who was is it if not Fu Qing. She walked over and a lot people cast glances in their direction.
"Do you think Fu Qing's reputation is this loud? How come she seems far more famous on the first day here?" Wu Shuang said as he turned away from her.
"I don't think that her reputation is renown rather she might have caused some trouble. The way she looks at us with an adorable look is enough to prove something ain't right. Run!" Qin Lin actually rushed out so fast.
"Huh! You run as soon as you say it." He was complaining but his speed was not slow either.
"Cough! Cough! Fu Qing, it's that I'm being stingy, but I have no money on me!" As he shouted this, Wu Shuang's figure was already on the run.
When everyone was watching them, it seemed very comical.
"Hahahaha!" Some burst out into laughter.
Even Fu Qing that was walking towards them was shocked.
The two made an exit so fast.
Wu Shuang obviously believed what Qin Lin had just said, as soon as he remembered how stingy she was on their last encounter!
On another part of the mountain, a man with red hair was watching all of this and he found it very amusing.
He even had a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Interesting! I thought there was nothing interesting in the Academy, but turns out I was wrong. Uncle! I will join the Academy!" He turned and mentioned this to a middleaged man with red hair standing next to him.
"Huh!" The middleaged man was suprised.
Even when his brother tried to convince this brat to join the Academy he just claimed to be visiting for sightseeing.
But suddenly he was willing to enter the Academy.
"Disciple! Stop!" When Wu Shuang was running suddenly he heard a voice sounding in his ears.
"Master! What is wrong?" He couldn't help but stop.
"After you complete the process of vein opening, you should visit this place. Remember it, the zone will allow you to open the dantian easily." The voice in his mind sounded.
"Why can't I just open the dantian?" He couldn't help but ask.
"Hehe! Who do you think you are disciple? With just your martial body you also want to open the dantian on your own?" This time the voice responded aggressively.
"The human body has endless potential, but at the end of the day human power is limited. I should have explained clearly to you. The human body has a lot of treasures, and each of them is sealed, with human power alone it's impossible to open them.The dantian is the first human treasure. It is also the only human treasure that alone, can allow one to cultivate to a very high level before reaching the limit."
"But at the end of the day, a single treasure of the human body even if explored to the full potential can't possibly turn one into a strong man. Each and every one of the treasures in the body serve a purpose and compliment each other. From now on you should remember this, without enough external help, the treasures of the human body can't be opened. Entering the Academy is just one of the ways you can get access to this treasures understand?" She made sure to have him memorize this information.
"Anyway, Only after you open the dantian will you will understand what I mean. The path of martial arts is divided into nine heavens and each heaven is the treasure you open up. Everything else that happens along the way is just guidance towards opening them." When Wu Shuang heard this, he seemed to have guessed something.
Actually it wasn't that difficult to guess. Basically he had to train his physique to the point that he could practice a martial body technique. After practice of martial body technique, it was possible to locate the veins around his body.
This is enough to show that strengthening his Physique was all for training a martial body technique. But a martial body technique seemed far more than just what he had assumed.
Since the opening of veins is all for the opening of a dantian. It goes without saying that opening the dantian in the martial body technique might just be the start.
From what his master had just said about there being nine heavens, he was thinking the martial body had something to do with these nine heavens.
"Master! Does opening all the treeures mean you are among the strong men in the world?" He couldn't help but ask.
"Hehe! Strongest! Disciple, stop daydreaming. It is not even a sure thing if you can open the dantian treasure. Put your feet on the ground and look at what is on your feet first. Perhaps this way you might not collapse in a ditch somewhere in the future. This empress will not care about you then." When he heard this words, he understood partly what she was saying.
He was currently just a small ant at the True Martial realm thinking about higher realms even asking questions about this realms, where did he get that arrogance?
He should be grounded on his true martial realm and focus on taking things step by step.
After reaching this line of thought, Wu Shuang became very sober. He didn't rush anywhere, rather stood in place memorizing the terrain while waiting for someone.
"Wu Shuang! You unreliable man. What are you running from?" When he heard the voice his face darkened.
He thought this arrogant blacksmith was going to talk nicely, but actually talking like as though he owed her.
"Huh! Fu Qing! Why can't you talk nicely? How I'm I suddenly some unreliable man? I'm still considered young boy alright. When we talk about seniority, I should call you senior! After all you are a level 3 while I barely count at level 2." Wu Shuang couldn't wait to refute her so fast.
When she heard this words, she seemed speechless.
"You!" She couldn't even argue.
"What about me? You actually rushed here, and we thought you had already entered the Academy. What? You failed to meet the criteria?" He couldn't help but ask with a strange tone.
"Who failed? The gate hasn't been opened yet. Where is sister Qin?" She suddenly turned her topic to Qin Lin.
'Why? You want to annoy her again. She already escaped. I'm guessing she is hiding from you.' He didn't say this out loud but thought so in his heart.
"She went the other direction." He sold out Qin Lin without even a second thought.
He had no intention of staying with her as he waited for the gate to open. He was going to divert trouble to the east. Fu Qing couldn't control her mouth and at this moment, he understood why people gave them special attention.
It was probably to remember them for the future. She might have said something she shouldn't to a lot of people and now they had marked them already.
He felt like crying the more he thought about it.
"Did you offend all this people by yourself?" He just couldn't understand how one person could make so many enemies all at once.
"They can't blame me for this! I just told them the truth!"She seemed not to care.
"What truth did you tell them?" He couldn't help but get curious at the same time had a bad premonition.