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 mories, trying to make sense of them and organizing them into two separate tilines.
"There's sothing that's been bothering a bit. There's sothing strange in the green-eyed boy's mories or well, my mories..." the boy muttered softly to himself, his youthful face full of confusion.
The mories 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 seed to be about 10 ters in diater, managing to clear a blocked path caused by a landslide.
"That stone must have weighed at least 100 tons, maybe even 10 tis that. But how is sothing like that possible? Such a feat defies the physical laws of the blue-eyed man's mories. Am I rembering wrong? Are the blue-eyed man's or the green-eyed boy's mories incorrect?...
So far, the blue-eyed man's mories, which I'll call my past life for convenience, have been extrely useful for survival. Moreover, my body and abilities, while a bit stronger for soone my age, still fall within the understanding of his mories. On the other hand, a human lifting 100 tons by himself is unheard of..."
The boy continued pondering, carefully studying the mories from the few years of his 'new life', trying to retrieve all the fragnts related to that knight or any other supernatural elents he could find.
"So, they're called imperial knights... According to so random rumors 'I heard', these are sacred warriors who use the essence of the gods to beco invincible demigods. But once, the old blacksmith ntioned 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 sothing similar in the mories of my past life. When I was in high school, I learned so 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 sothing 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 rembered on the beach, simultaneously trying to focus on any unusual sensations in his body.
After about thirty minutes of nonstop exercises, to his absolute surprise, he suddenly felt a warm and pleasant sensation below his navel, which made him stop his movents.
"Is that chi?!!! It feels strangely pleasant and comforting, but is it real or just an illusion?... Hard to say, maybe I'm just hungry and being on this island is making have bodily illusions. For now, let's eat, and I'll try again later."
Not feeling like cooking his at, the boy quickly peeled a coconut and ate a good portion while staring at the sea, his gaze lost as if struggling to accept sothing beyond his understanding.
Ti passed slowly, accompanied by the sound of the waves in the background and the occasional sound of bites, but the strange thing was that the warm sensation below his navel didn't disappear. On the contrary, the more ti passed, the clearer and more evident it beca, making it impossible to ignore.
"Could it be real? Does 'chi' really exist? But there was nothing like this in the mories of my past life... Sigh Well, it's not like I have anything else to do, so I might as well try more things. Maybe try to make it flow through my body while doing the movents? After all, that teacher kept talking about the importance of 'flow' and a bunch of other 'nonsense'."
Filled with mixed feelings, the boy took his basic Tai Chi position again and tried to imagine the warm sensation moving throughout his body. Almost instantly, it started to happen, the warm sensation 'flowed' to every part of his body at a steady pace.
After a few minutes, the boy's entire body felt warm, which sohow made him feel very strong and full of energy. Once he got used to it a bit, the boy started performing the exercise routine he rembered, and as ti passed, he closed his eyes and his movents beca more fluid, smoother, and much more graceful.
Without realizing it, the boy's mind went blank, performing the movents almost on autopilot. For so reason, this made him feel 'in the zone'. Everything felt incredibly clear, the world around him seed to slow down, and he felt as if his body was being guided to follow a special 'flow' or rhythm.
With this strange guidance, the boy gradually began to adjust his movents. At so point, though he didn't know how long he had been repeating the sa actions, he started to feel a kind of 'glowing points' surrounding him. These points moved slightly in ti with his movents, almost as if they were dancing with him.
The boy continued his movents, focusing all his attention on these points, trying to understand them sohow. After who knows how long, he realized that these points had been guiding him from the beginning, even though he hadn't been able to sense them before. Now it seed they wanted to convey so type of information more directly, which was terribly strange and confusing, but paradoxically, incredibly clear and easy to follow at the sa ti.
With this sensation in mind, the boy kept executing his movents, noticing that the 'suggestions' from these energy points strengthened when he followed them. They not only beca clearer but also contained increasingly more 'information', which was sowhat uncomfortable. Following his instincts, he decided to continue.
Following the new 'suggestions' from the points, the boy began to radically change his movents to the extent that the original Tai Chi movents were barely recognizable. Additionally, the way his 'chi' moved through his body underwent significant changes.
As an unknown amount of ti passed, which felt both like an eternity and an instant to the boy, he felt the energy points begin to enter his body, rging with his 'chi' and sohow 'perfecting' the flow he was following. Simultaneously, he started receiving a large amount of 'suggestions', which he quickly followed.
After completing several cycles of his new movents and 'flow' of 'chi', the boy felt the fatigue accumulated from his endless practice vanish, as if his exhaustion had been rely an illusion. He then began to feel a strong sensation of heat throughout his body that seed to burn him, yet he felt no pain or discomfort.
On the contrary, the intense heat his body was experiencing felt very pleasant, like being in a thermal bath. At the sa ti, this heat seed to be 'burning away' enormous shackles that had been on him, so he continued his movents without stopping.
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Ti passed unceasingly on the beautiful island, bringing rains and storms that eventually erased any evidence of soone having lived there, restoring its pristine, beautiful image.
However, sothing that not even the worst storm could interrupt was a handso boy who appeared to be about ten years old, performing movents that seed part of a martial art. The boy had black hair that resembled a piece of the night sky, adorned with stars and galaxies, standing out against his flawless, porcelain-like white skin.
Despite the boy's beautiful appearance, his 'clothes' told a completely different story, being no more than scraps of dirty fabric hanging carelessly over his small body, leaving him practically naked on the white beaches and at the rcy of the elents.
The boy's movents were not only beautiful but also incredibly diverse. Sotis he moved with fluid grace, his body 'undulating' to the rhythm of the tides. Then his movents would beco firm, moving with unyielding strength, each step and strike resonating with the power of the mountains themselves.
At other tis, the boy seed to dance with the wind, spinning and moving with an almost ethereal agility, his feet landing and lifting off the ground with the softness of a feather. Then, his movents would shift to fast and aggressive, full of sharp kicks and punches imbued with a fierce, burning energy.
But this spectacle, witnessed only by the beautiful island, abruptly ca to a halt. The boy breathed softly as he opened his srizing erald green eyes, filled with a depth and mystery unfathomable for soone so young.
"Wow, I feel so good! I think I've never felt this good in my life, or well, in both my lives. I feel so light, full of energy and strength, hehe, and I'm not even hungry or sleepy despite such intense training," the boy looked at his tattered clothes before continuing, "After all, my clothes are ruined. Good thing I left the rabbit skin to dry, I'd better go get it..."
The boy comnted with a cheerful and relaxed voice, not only feeling good physically but even many of his worries had diminished to the point of almost disappearing. He quickly looked behind him to head towards his camp, but there was nothing but white sand.
Confused, the boy began looking around for his camp, but all he could see was the rocky shore, with no trace of his belongings.
"Where are my things?!"
Without wasting ti, he ran to the spot where he had left the rabbit skin to dry, but again, found nothing. No matter where he looked, there was no sign that anything had ever been there.
"You've got to be kidding !!! Where the hell are my things? Is soone else here and took them? But that doesn't make sense. I didn't notice anything, and there's no trace that anything was ever here..."
Annoyed and frustrated, the boy started scanning his surroundings, trying to find any tracks or clues, while pondering a possible explanation for what was happening. Suddenly, his eyes widened in surprise, and he looked at his body before exclaiming incredulously.
"Wait... How long have I been 'training'?..."
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