Chapter 376: The Zaha Divine Art Acquired Through All Streams Return to the Source
When I finished the breathing meditation of the Golden Nine Wandering Art, I felt muscle aches and a feverish heat throughout my body. However, I couldn't stop just because there was pain. That was because I was still submerged in the surging stream. Naturally, I calmly accepted the flow with the Moonshadow Emotionless Art.
On top of the muscle pain and heat, chills ran through my entire body.
More precisely, the heat and chills alternated repeatedly.
It was difficult to tell whether this pain was imagined or real. Before I knew it, the once-surging sea had frozen over, making my lower body feel cold, while the crown of my head felt hot. I had no choice but to enter the breathing meditation of the Hundred Battles Ten Layers Art. It felt like my body was being torn apart by hot and cold energies at the same time, which was thrilling, but soon my entire body was seized by spasms.
So this is why, if the body's level isn't ready...
Was there even a reason to accumulate deep internal energy?
As I continued the breathing meditation, a fear settled in that I might ascend into the heavens. Still, my mind remained clear. This level of pain was something to endure. Because nothing in this world is guaranteed.
If you're not prepared, can you not even receive the greatest gift?
After enduring the heat, chills, and spasms, I re-entered the breathing meditation of the Golden Nine Wandering Art. I resolved that if burning my own body could prevent a meaningless death, then I would continue the breathing meditation until I lost consciousness. I unknowingly frowned. It was because three kinds of pain were crashing in. Just as I believed the pain would pass, I heard someone's voice.
"...Is it hard?"
Though I didn't know whose voice it was, I replied anyway.
"It's not too bad."