C014 Loco...!
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"Eh... I... answers I no seek much," I replied in roughly the same manner as the old man was speaking.
"Speak do not me follow...Guardian Spirit you saw, answers you seek. Also, keris you bring, power many many." he said and I almost choked and nearly laugh out this time.
It seemed that he doesn't need me to speak the same way as him to make himself understand me. Maybe he speaks this way for his own convenience but it would be rude to be following the way he speaks...!
Nevertheless, the brothers were trying to stifle their laughter when I tried to copy the way the old man was talking...!
I looked at the brothers and they too were covering their mouths tightly while holding their laughter back till their faces were as red as tomatoes.
"You sit, go there. Meditate. Mind you set free. No thinking naughty naughty eh... Empty mind. Wait something happens and feel light in the body. Then check you, I will. Got one answer your mind in question."
The Master replied as he pointed with his crooked walking stick towards a round mat on the floor that was woven from the dried husk filament of a coconut.
From the looks of it, I sure am going to scratch my butt like a monkey! Does it really need to get any worse than this?!?!
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"Hmmmpphhh.....Hmmpphhh... Hmmpphhh..." stifling waves of laughter from the brothers could be heard and I can see tears streaming down their faces as they tried hard not to be transformed into laughing hyenas.
Little did the rest of the brothers expect that the Master to be speaking in this manner and that had taken them by surprise. A total surprise...!
I crept at the rough-looking mat, planted myself while squinting hard at the prickly surface as I sat cross-legged and closed my eyes.
Placing both hands at my knees, I sat up straight as I cleared my mind and take control of my breathing. After a while, I felt a kind of dizziness, slowly creeping onto me.
The noise of the surroundings suddenly turned muffled and there seemed to be a vortex in the middle of my darkened "vision" and this soon turned alternately into bright flashes of blinding light and then darkness.
I was half expecting the Master was flashing a kind of light at my face and then covering it up with his hand afterwards repeatedly.
The Master just advised emptying my mind. Sheesh...
Suddenly a loud "SMACK!!" resounded in the middle of the gazebo where I was sitting and I felt a painful and sharp slap landed on my forehead as I can't help myself from reeling backwards from my sitting position.
My eyes start tearing up and I blinked painfully at the same time while using both hands to cover the top of my eyes as I tried adjusting to the glaring light.
"Sorry. A big mosquito comes to bite. Here is dengue zone. No good." muttered the Master after I realized that he had swatted my forehead and squashed the poor mosquito.
A small blob of blood was all that left of the squashed mosquito as I rubbed the part where I was slapped as the itchiness soon followed.
I was scratching my forehead and soon a small welt appeared right in the centre of it. "Good, now third eye open. Die soon faster, see ghosts day and night. Die, die, die...!!!"
The Master was talking in a gibberish manner as the three brothers suddenly cracked up and were rolling on the floor.
Those brothers were unable to hold in their laughter anymore and were laughing so hard that they were all holding on to their tummies, tapping out and stomping their feet at the same time.
Well, that's ROFL to you folks. Never expected to see that he opening in real life and I was quite piqued in how people could actually manage to do that kind of act.
I am not too sure whether my Third Eye was opened or whether I would be dying soon, as I looked at their direction and cannot help but laughed along with their antics.
"Sigh... Is this Master a joke or something?"
I can't help letting out a sigh whether this old man who called himself a Master was proven or self-proclaimed one.
"Now stand. Try to push me. Strong one!" commanded the old man as I was scratching at my forehead that now had a welt the size of a nickel.
I slowly stood up and walked up to the old man as I was looking rather stupified when I used one hand to push on his shoulder.
"You woman? More strength you use! Push like me!" he demonstrated by taking up a stance, dropped his walking stick on the floor and used his two outstretched palms on my chest and pushed with the slight of his body.
BOOM!!!! I was blown backwards the moment I felt a slight pressure from his palms.
I was on total shock and was flailing my arms about like performing a reverse butterfly stroke. I tried grabbing something for support but had none until I fell backwards off the edge of the gazebo.
"ROTTEN JACKFRUIT YOU FALL!!!" shouted Cheng and imitated the way the old man's talk before all three of them were in stitches again.
"My Goodness...! That old man didn't use too much of a force to push me but when he did he almost made me off balance with just a slight touch of his palms..."
"Did he have some sort of inner strength that I might have watched these kung-fu movies during my free times?" I can't help thinking about it as I dusted myself off and climbed onto the gazebo again.
This time I followed his stance, my left foot slightly outwards, arms stretched and palms on his shoulders.
As the old man was a lot smaller and shorter than me, I cannot help by putting my hands on his shoulders but be in a downward position which seemed to be in his disadvantage.
When I was about to push down on his shoulders, he suddenly grabbed my two wrists and I can feel a surge of unknown energies or electricity of some sort that was travelling from his wrists down to my arms, my chest, body, my abdomen and then down to my legs before the energies suddenly shoot up right up to the crown of my head.
"Hhuuaaaaaaa.....!!!" the old man hollered once he had completed transferring some sort of unknown energies from his wrists right down to my whole body.
I could feel not only the sudden surge of energies but can also sense or hear the crackling and sizzling of energies as it went through my body.
After some moments, he released my wrists and I suddenly went jelly at my knees and slumped on the ground like a huge blob of flab.
"Ooffmmpphh..." I subconsciously let out a loud sound and slumped to the ground in a heap. The effect of what the old man had done to me was indescribable.
The so-called energies crackled through my body as if I had the jolt of more than 220 volts running through me at that time. The electrifying energies snaked through my upper and lower extremities and lastly emerged at the top of my head.
It seemed that I could even smell my hairs crackling and smouldering after the ordeal...!
The old man held his hand under my arm and effortlessly brought me to my feet. Such a small old man but yet he could carry me off the ground effortlessly...!
He guided me towards the edge of the settlement behind his house like the blind leading the deaf and stopped near a clearing.
"Now see what you? Moving things? Colours? Ugly ghost?" the old man inquired as I tried to understand about half of what he said and peered out to the open area.
"What the hell is this old man trying to tell me what to do? See moving things? What moving things? See ugly ghost? I would not see any disembowelled ghost at this time...! I don't have the strength to run at all...!"
I thought to myself as I trained my eyes to see beyond the darkness of the forested area behind his house near the clearing that he had brought me earlier.
Suddenly, behind some thick tree trunks, I saw a white translucent figure that was making peek-a-boo actions towards my direction and also a kind of slithering multispectrum kind of figure-like cloth moving around the trees.
"It can't be right!!! Its still daytime and I can see spirits wandering!" I said aloud to the old man. " I can see what others cannot see," I told him on whispered tones, afraid that saying directly would make those spirits follow me back home.
"How am I going to entertain these kinds of spirits when I still need to find answers to what I really wanted right now. Before one thing is completed, another crops out."
"These brothers really made such a big impact on me right now and I am not sure about how my journey would be right after this. Will I get stuck in here forever?"
I thought inwardly as I was once again led by the old man back to the gazebo as he talked to me, "Good...Good... You Third Eye open. Directly do not call name. Say you saw friends, OK?"
The old man advised me as if he had read my mind openly. "Yes, Master, I will. Thank you very much for your guidance."
I profusely thanked the old man but really for what? A third eye so I could see the undead? Who needs that anyway and I wondered what benefits I or in fact, Bo, would achieve later in his life?
"About the Qi, how could I make full use of it and could you explain what the Qi is all about?" I inquired to the old man and was pondering of the Qi would be of any benefits to both me and Bo in this life.
I also wanted to find out more about the uses of the Qi that was somehow transferred or unlocked when the old man somehow had used his so-called powers to send those electrical charges to my body without any single warning.
"You one hour meditate. One day one time. Everyday. From tonight. Your Qi flow increases one day one per cent. One hundred days become one hundred."
"Now Losing Self. Next upgrade. Gathering Chi. Internal energy. Concentrate. Hit or Kick. Leg kick or hand punch become BIG. Strength multiply. Boomboom.....!!!"
"You come. One hundred days here." replied the old man in his usual manner which actually takes some time for me to comprehend what he was trying to covey.
I was roughly estimating on what he was trying to say so I deduced that my Qi had now being opened or unlocked already.
It is now at Losing Self stage which was the very basic stage for all practitioners.
Next, one hour of meditation per day is equal to a one per cent increase in my Qi concentration and in 100 days time I would have achieved 100 per cent. By then, I would have gone up to another level called Gathering Chi.
In this Gathering Chi, my internal energy would have increased and would greatly enhance my kicking and punching powers.
Now, who the hell is going to be my unarmed instructor? I have a basic knowledge of unarmed combat during my military days but I don't think it's the same as what I am going to experience right now, innit?
I sighed once again inwardly as I thought about the next 100 days that I would be here again once I had upgraded from Losing Self to Gathering Chi.
"Yes Master, I come here in one hundred day's time to see you for the upgrade. At the same time, I will meditate every day for about one hour."
"So whenever I kick or punch, the leg or arm that I used will multiply in strength right?"I repeated his instructions carefully so I do not miss a thing.
"Good boy," that was his remark as I repeated what he had advised me a few moments ago.
I turned and looked at the three brothers in the gazebo and found out that they were mimicking the actions just now like in a slow kung-fu movie.
When they caught a glimpse of me looking at them, they fall back on the ground and cracked into laughter again.
"Bloody loco..."
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