Chapter 120: Life 65, Age 16, Martial Disciple Peak
When I returned to the classroom, I was surprised to see the other students still cultivating. Examining them in qi vision, I saw that one boy and one girl were struggling to continue cultivating as Martial Disciple 4s, one girl was stuck at Martial Disciple 3, and the last boy was having trouble concentrating at only Martial Disciple 2.
I looked to Instructor Sun to see what I was supposed to do, and he gestured for me to retake my seat, so that’s what I did. I didn’t even consider cultivating again in the qi-flooded environment, though. Instead, I just watched as the instructor assisted the other students.
From what I could see, the problem was that they couldn’t focus, which made sense. I doubted they could even really think about cultivating. Rage from their techniques must be overwhelming them at all times.
When it was clear no one was making any more progress, the instructor went to each student one by one and tapped on their open acupoints. After his treatment, their faces immediately relaxed.
Instructor Sun walked to the front of the classroom and gestured at a diagram of the human body.
“I have sealed your acupoints, but you should still be able to feel them pulsing. Try to feel the location of these pulses as accurately as possible. That is the location of the interface between your physical body and your energy body.”
I reached out with my spiritual senses to my acupoints and felt them. They weren’t exactly pulsing like the instructor described, likely because I had sealed them myself, but I could sense a kind of pressure locked inside. It felt like there was an alien will that wanted to be released.
I had always considered acupoints as holes through my body, connecting my muscles to the outside world. As I examined them closely, I realized that this paradigm didn’t make any sense. There weren’t any holes in my body. I should have realized this sooner, but I never stopped to think too much about it. Now, I was beginning to see that instead of being holes in my body, they were more like holes through reality. Between realities?
The acupoints didn’t connect my muscles with the outside world, they connected the muscles of my physical body with those of my energy body, allowing the transfer of energy between the two.