Chapter 16: Qi
At night, moonlight and starlight dot the dark sky.
There is a stone house with lights next to the stream in the forest.
In the stone house, the three of George were eating dinner.
Millie triumphantly said to Mona, who was eating noodles, "Mona, I'll just say that George's cooking is delicious." β
"Hmmm! It's very delicious, and it's the first time I've ever tasted noodles with this taste. After drinking the last bit of soup in the bowl, Mona asked George, "What's the name of this noodle, it's so delicious, can you teach me how to make it?" β
George, who had just finished eating, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "This is called Jinmai's Grandpa Braised Beef Noodles, it's easy to make, just eat this once in a while, I'll teach you another day, you can read it again." β
George saw Mona rubbing her shoulders after eating and asked, "Are you tired from holding the reins for a day?" β
"It's okay, get some sleep and you'll be fine tomorrow."
Mona lifted the reins for the day, and the muscles in her arms and shoulders ached a little.
But this is nothing to her, she has had to do her own housework since she was very young, and she has to cook and eat by herself, and sometimes she will go to other people's houses to help out and earn some money.
So this little ache and pain, she believes that she will be able to adapt soon.
"That's not good, your body is still too weak, we still have a long way to go, I can't let my little groom get tired so quickly, didn't you say you want to learn from me, then I'll teach you something."
With that, George clenched his fist and stretched out towards Monaping.
"Put your hand on it and feel it."
Mona did so, and she put her hands on George's fist, but she felt nothing but the hardness and warmth of George's fist.
Suddenly, Mona felt her hands clinging to George's fists being slowly pushed away by a gentle force.
She tried hard a few times but couldn't touch George's fist, and every time her hands came close to George's two or three fingers, she would be stopped by a repulsive force, and the curious Millie also came to try, but she couldn't touch George's fist either.
A pale blue light suddenly appeared from George's fist, and the moment the fist appeared it bounced off Millie and Mona's hands, startling the two.
Mona was surprised and asked, "What is this?" β
George looked at his fist glowing blue and said, "This is 'qi', and it exists in nature and in the bodies of each of us. It is found in blood, muscles, hair, or bones. β
As he spoke, he controlled his qi and kept changing forms on his fistsβsometimes swaying like a blue flame, sometimes shining like the sun, sometimes as soft and restrained as the moon.
"It is like the clouds in the sky, ethereal and uncertain, as the so-called wind blows the clouds and gathers ten thousand laws, and the cumulus clouds become rain and transform all life. Only by finding the most authentic self and moving according to the rhythm of nature can it unleash its inner life force. This is 'qi'. George explained in a calm tone.
"It's so profound." Mona and Millie both looked dazed, both saying that they didn't understand what George was saying at all.
Mona thought for a moment, and she reached over and touched George's fist again, but this time her hand seemed to be sucked into George's hand, and she couldn't move her hand no matter how she moved.
"Close your eyes, open your heart, feel it, feel it." George's voice reached her ears.
Mona listened to George's words and obediently closed her eyes.
George used his own qi to channel the subtle qi in Monna's body, helping her to feel and have an epiphany.
"Qi travels through the meridians of man and nature, thus bringing vitality to our bodies and nature. It is the purest and lightest part of our body, and everyone perceives and externalizes it differently. Now I will use my qi to help you feel your own qi. β
Mona suddenly felt a "qi" in her body wandering all over her body. Wherever the "qi" goes, it will feel a little swollen and a little warm.
Time passes little by little.
Half an hour later, George was still using his own qi to guide Mona's qi, while Millie watched the two quietly while eating noodles on the side.
Mona closed her eyes and immersed herself, she had never felt so comfortable, her limbs seemed to be refreshed, and there was no longer the soreness of a tiring day. George's warm "qi" spread all over her body, warming her body and soul.
Feeling that the time for guidance was almost up, George stopped releasing the "qi", he let go of his fist and withdrew his hand and said: "Okay Mona, let's stop here, I have left a part of my 'qi' in your body, and it will help you strengthen your own 'qi'." β
Mona, whose face was slightly red, opened her eyes and nodded, she still had some nostalgia for the comfortable feeling just now.
"Could this be the power of magic?" Mona thought to herself.
She had never known that there was magic that could make people comfortable, and in her mind, magic had always been synonymous with destruction, destroying both enemies and herself.
However, the magic called 'qi' that George had let herself feel just now made her feel very comfortable, which couldn't help but make her ask suspiciously:
"Does this magic called 'qi' have any side effects on the body?"
George thought to himself, "Looks like this girl thinks she just taught her magic, but how do I explain it to her?" β
After thinking for a while, George rubbed Mona's head and said: "I don't know any Alvaron magic, this is 'qi', not magic, it is only good for you, there is no harm, what you are learning now is just the foundation of the basics, as long as you practice diligently, you will understand in the future." β
"yes, okay." Although Mona still had doubts in her heart, she nodded in response.
"It's not magic...... Could that be the power of the apocalypse? But aren't all the powers of the apocalypse innate......"
Dissipating all the doubts in her heart, Mona only thinks that she has been living in a small town on the edge of the empire, so her knowledge is shallow.
"Just do what George says." Mona said with determination.
Millie, who was eating noodles on the side, saw that George seemed to teach Mona something called "qi", and when George was explaining to Mona, she listened obediently while eating noodles on the side, but after listening to it for a long time, she was still confused.
Mona had been closing her eyes and receiving George's guidance just now, so she didn't dare to disturb, and seeing that they were over, Millie walked up to George, blew George's face, and asked, "George, is this what you mean by 'gas'?" β
"That's your tone." George helplessly wiped a few drops of saliva blown by Millie on his face, and then taught Millie with a blank face: "Millie, don't blow hard at people just after eating, it's very rude, look at the instant noodle-flavored saliva you blow on my face." β
"Oh, Millie knows it's wrong." Millie apologized, but still asked, "Is the tone also 'gas'?" β
"Yes or no, you wait for Mona to know, you can find her for a reference."
"Hee-hee! Then Millie was waiting for Mona. β
Whew~ George breathed a sigh of relief.
He praised his witty answer, or he didn't know how many more questions Millie would have to answer.
"You stay here, don't run around, I'll go out and wash the dishes."
Without caring about the conversation between the two girls in the room, George put away the dishes and chopsticks on the table, walked out of the stone house, walked to the stream, and began to clean.
Putting the washed back into the storage bag, George looked up at the moon in the sky.
Looking at the round moon, he remembered the time when his first world was in the "Valley of Peace", and remembered that his first task at that time was to learn from a teacher, and he was also accepted as an apprentice by the "Turtle Master" in the "Jade Palace" on such a night when the full moon was high.
At that time, he was a fledgling and full of hope for everything.
And the tasks issued by the system at that time were also very close to his heart.
There, he first helped the Emerald Palace defeat the scheming dragon, then helped Heping Valley defeat the Shen Wangye, who led his troops to attack, and finally defeated the Heavenly Evil in the Panda Village, who plundered the qi of others for his own use.
George unbuttoned his shirt and pulled out an emerald pendant carved with a ferocious cow.
He stroked the jade pendant with his own body temperature, this was the jade corpse pendant of the heavenly evil.
After he defeated the Heavenly Evil, he was about to be sent back by the system soon, but for some reason, the Turtle Master actually knew that he was leaving, and when he took it away, the Turtle Master took out the Heavenly Evil's Jade Corpse Pendant and gave it to George.
This jade corpse pendant, as long as he carries it with him, can obtain the 'qi' of Tiansha, and can also temporarily summon the Fei corpse of Tiansha to help him fight, which suddenly improved his strength a lot, and in the following world, this jade corpse pendant helped him a lot.
Although with his current strength, this jade corpse was dispensable for his ascension, but he still carried it with him.