《Heart of a tree》Chapter-18 Anger and Souls
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The pain had grown so intense that I could barely think much less move.
I tried to run the Yin Qi but to no avail,
I thought of ways to escape this crisis and to save my life
But I couldn't think of anything
I felt a chill so cold on my head that the floor felt scolding hot
I took a deep breath to calm myself and tried to get up
I believed that if I could get up,
Then I could go and find the old man Bu, Pollux he'll even Julia
Anyone really
Anyone who could help me
I wanted to live, I didn't want to die
But because of the pain I couldn't my body
I heard my heart as it thudded madly in my chest
My ears were ringing and my tongue was tingling
My throat felt dry and soar
I was terrified once again in my life
I wanted the pain to stop.
But that was just wishful thinking as the pain showed no sign of ceasing
As I lay there on the ground struggling the fierce pain
I tried extremely hard to just breathe and make it through the pain.
I must have done something right because I was able to think again
I thought about today
Today was a roller coaster,
Visualization of the lake,
the disappointing 'Mind's Eye',
My foolish attempt to unlock the 'third eye' appoint
That last one was a giant foolish mistake that would cost me dearly
'If I died again maybe I would be reborn I thought
Who knows maybe this time around my luck wouldn't be so rotten
I could get a decent family who would be at least
These thoughts made me happy and I relaxed
For some reason, my mind went to the lake the peace and happiness I found there.
I began the visualisation technique and entered the lake once again
This time I was sitting on the freaking water
Before I could marvel over the situation that could walk on water
I realised that the pain was gone
I excitedly looked around
The sky was bright and clear and there was a white sun up
I could see a blue horizon as far as my vision went
The white sun felt so close that I felt that I could just reach up and touch it
The lake was surrounded by green dense trees
I was so giddy and happy that I could dance
But that didn't last long
The world shook momentarily and a tremor went through the lake like an earthquake
I once again felt the intense pain
It was only for a short moment but that left me on my knees
clenching my head
There was Blood pounding in my ears
My legs were quivering uncontrollably
My sight distorted as if someone put high powered glasses lens on my eyes
I slowly fell on my side, my whole body was soaking wet
I didn't know if it was the sweat or the lake water
After some time I calmed down and got up
As soon as I did the world once again shook
Bringing me back to my knees
I lost my nerve to get back up again
As I sat there on my knees I thought about my life
You could call me a loser
You could call me a down and out guy
But you couldn't call me a quitter
I had tried my level best even with that card fate had dealt me
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Life was a roller roster of sadness and bad luck
From the moment I was born, it was a shit show
I lost the only person who cared about me
I was blinded
And now I was here dying
Before I could even accomplish a single thing.
I lay there as another shock of pain washed over me
I started to remember my previous life
I regretted everything I did
The choices I made and the decisions I took
I wanted a do-over, I wanted a second chance
The more I thought about more the memories of the past came to me
I was a coward my entire life
I always ran away from any difficult situation instead of facing it head-on
I never bother to fight for myself
The time I was fired from my job for a false reason
The day I found my wife cheating
The day my mother reduced to recognise me
And just like that, I was going to give up and run away from it all
Only this time running away meant dying
I had two options flight or fight
And I wanted to choose to fight
To fight for my life
I decided not to flee and the moment I did so
I felt the dark emotion of fear wash over me
I screamed at the top of my lungs
And the world around shook
But this time I didn't fall on my knees
I screamed until I had no voice left
My sanity was seeping from my hands
The fear and pain were the only aspects I could feel
After some time I calmed down
As I calmed down I noticed my changed surrounding
The trees had disappeared
The clear blue lake was now murky dark and black
Instead of the clear blue sky, it was white now
Instead of the white sun, there was a golden circle
Suspiciously similar to my life symbol
And there was a red glow coming from behind me
I turned around to find a red ball size of my fist
floating in the middle of the lake
With red lightning sauntering around it like snakes
And from time to time a red bolt of lightning would shoot out of the ball
Visiting the lake surface turning it red from black
And just right below the red ball
There sat a five coloured man in the porous position
He had no eyes, no face, no mouth and no genitals
It was a plane man devoid of any discernible features part from that his body was made of five colours
Red, grey, blue, green and yellow
And vaguely around this man, there was a faint phantom of a tall spacious mountain
I had to squint my eyes to see the mountain
What the hell was this
The more I saw of the man the familiar he felt
How could a man with no features a familiar
But instead of being scared by seeing such a man, I felt at ease even peaceful
As I was busy studying the new addition to my lake
A mother of all shocks came
Instantaneously causing the collapse of my lake world
My vision blurred then darkened
I was once again on the boiling floor and in terrible pain
I was forcefully brought out of my meditation and into reality
The chill had spread from my head to my chest now
I didn't know how long before I died in this life
Of all the emotions I was experiencing at that moment
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Anger was the most dominant one
And that surprised me
I was"t feeling any anger before
I felt really angry,
Angry at old Bu
angry at granny
Angry at my so-called parents
Angry at everything but most of all
I felt angry at myself
For being a coward
For not fighting
For being afraid
The anger gave me clarity and strength
That allowed me to move and think again
I didn't want to die just yet
I once again ran the Yin Qi sutra of mountain river flow through my body
This time something unexpected happened
As I ran the sutra I was able to clearly sense every inch of my body
From My beating heart to my
Fingernails to my toes to my every pore and muscle to the blood flowing through my he is
I was conscious of everything including the Yin Qi
I could feel every nuance of every cell in my body
And I could clearly feel that the method was somehow wrong
The flow of Qi was not only obstructed at various locations it never reached any of the acupoints
I was just forcing the Qi into my bloodstream causing the blood to chill and this was killing me
I instantly corrected the flaws
And the strange chill started to fade
A heard a pop at the place where the 'third eye' acupoint was
It causes a short burst of pain at first then a relaxing sensation spread and a strange cool power began to radiate from the acupoint
Causing a feeling of accomplishment and fulfilment
I followed this feeling and attacked all the acupoints
on my face neck back of the head top of the head around my eras
Every time an acupoint was unlocked it would cause me a small instance of pain
and then a relaxing sensation would appear
and then I felt a strange cool powered radiating from that acupoint
I unlocked nearly 108 appoints and this was only on my head
I concluded that there were more than 108 acupoints Pollux told me about
I became scared and angry at this the sutra Old man Bu gave me was flawed
It nearly killed me
Pollux never gave me the complete information
Was nobody entirely helping me for the sake of helping me
This world was too cruel and scary
With the pain gone I was able to move so I got and sat down in a lotus position
And started to sense my body
My heart was pounding like crazy with excitement
It felt like it would explode
My body was quickly warming up
it felt like
I was on fire as a flame flicker
I could sense the strong cold power radiating from me
I also felt the strange anger that wasn't going away quickly enough
Nevertheless, I was still ao happy to feel this way strong and angry instead of afraid and powerless
However, before I could explore this newfound power and strength
I heard a maniacal laughter
coming from behind me
I quickly turned to the source of the laughter
There I saw a naked tall man
Skipping and prancing around the room
He suddenly stopped and
Laughed So hard that he fell down
And then he jumped up and started to sing loudly
"Yes!, Yes!, He is Alive!, He is alive!..........................
Like it was his favourite song
He then came to a halt and looked at me with a big bright smile as if he was waiting for my applause
'This can't be good' I thought
As I looked at him
I shook myself and stood up making a session
" Who are you?" I asked loudly
The man seemed honestly shocked
His smile disappeared and he stood up straight looking at me in astonishment
Then he said something that shocked me
"You can see me?"
Wait a good dammed second
"I can see him?" I asked myself
Well, apparently Yes!
I can see him
Me a blind man with no eyes can see him
What the hell was happening??
I once again looked at him for confirmation
Well, he was big and in fucking white and black, but yes I could see him
A million questions came to my head but I suppressed them and looked around
Not just the man I could see the entire place in black and white
I was super happy to be able to see again
I was in a stone chamber filled with many bones some looked human others not so much
' Fuck me where was I?'
I turned back to the naked man
I gave him a sideways glance and shrugged
Like I can see you, Duh
"Why are you naked?" I asked distracting myself
The man was silent for a long time
I was growing nervous
The silence grew a bit too loud
I was about to say something else when
He spoke
"Hmmm," the began chuckle
"Don't you know?"
Well, for a moment I wasn't sure
Was I supposed to know?
Fuck me of course I didn't know
"Yea!" I said and sacred at him intently
I was surprised as to how his nakedness wasn't making me uncomfortable
"The dead doesn't need any clothes"
He shouted and began to laugh harder than ever
As if he just told me a world-class joke
I gave him the
' yep you are 200% mentally ill"
Look
"Are you dead?" I asked
The man nodded
'This situation couldn't get any weirder' I thought
"Yes I am," he said
"Why do you ask?"
I shrugged
"Just wanted to know if I was dead as well" I replied
"No!, No!, you didn't die, I'm very happy you didn't die," he said
And the man started to sing again "yes he isn't dead.........
As he began to dance strangely
With every passing second, I was growing more confused
Right then pollux marched into the room
Holy shit was this guy tall
At least 8 feet by my estimate
The guy headed straight for the naked man
Can't pollux see the dancing naked man? I thought
I was expecting a collision
But pollux went right through the man as if he wasn't there
And came in front of stunned me
'Playing around I see" he barked at me
" It has been a month now how much progress have you made, tell me"
I wisely stayed quiet
Pollux snorted and made a disgusted face
"I think we should just give up I will talk to old Bu," he said to the air atop me
And turned around and left me
I was wrong this situation got much weirder
There I was standing all confused and shit with a naked man dancing around me whom evidently I could see and pollux couldn't
What in the world is happening I asked myself
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