Chapter 3 - 3: Is that chi?!!!
After finishing packing up his things, the boy, having ensured his basic survival needs, returned to his small hut. In there, he lay down on the woven mat and began to sift through his memories, trying to make sense of them and organizing them into two separate timelines.
"There's something that's been bothering me a bit. There's something strange in the green-eyed boy's memories or well, my memories..." the boy muttered softly to himself, his youthful face full of confusion.
The memories he was referring to involved an incredibly vivid image in his mind. It was of a large, muscular man with blond hair, around 40 years old, dressed in bright, intricately decorated plate armor. This man was lifting a boulder that seemed to be about 10 meters in diameter, managing to clear a blocked path caused by a landslide.
"That stone must have weighed at least 100 tons, maybe even 10 times that. But how is something like that possible? Such a feat defies the physical laws of the blue-eyed man's memories. Am I remembering wrong? Are the blue-eyed man's or the green-eyed boy's memories incorrect?...
So far, the blue-eyed man's memories, which I'll call my past life for convenience, have been extremely useful for survival. Moreover, my body and abilities, while a bit stronger for someone my age, still fall within the understanding of his memories. On the other hand, a human lifting 100 tons by himself is unheard of..."
The boy continued pondering, carefully studying the memories from the few years of his 'new life', trying to retrieve all the fragments related to that knight or any other supernatural elements he could find.
"So, they're called imperial knights... According to some random rumors 'I heard', these are sacred warriors who use the essence of the gods to become invincible demigods. But once, the old blacksmith mentioned that they were simply cultivators using 'spiritual energy' to strengthen themselves, a kind of magical energy that filled the universe...
'Spiritual energy' or also called 'chi,' right? There's something similar in the memories of my past life. When I was in high school, I learned some Tai Chi because it was free for students, and in those classes, they talked a lot about chi, the energy of the universe, the macrocosm, the microcosm, and so on. The question is, are they related?... Here, there seems to be something similar... It wouldn't hurt to try..."
With that thought in mind, the boy quickly left his hut and started performing the basic Tai Chi exercises he remembered on the beach, simultaneously trying to focus on any unusual sensations in his body.