Ma Rong shook a little when she heard the question. It seed she found the question a little too hard to answer.
"I can't tell you right now. You will find out on your own soday. You naturally finding out what is happening is the best we can hope for," she said.
Alex was now even more intrigued. 'What does she know? And why is she trying to hide it from ?' he wondered.
"Still, Master, I can't go into cultivation knowing I might end up being late tomorrow. Why don't I just cultivate body?" he said.
"Don't worry. Just go and cultivate. If nothing else, I can guarantee that you will wake up on ti," Ma Rong said.
"That's a lie right, Master? There have been many tis when I woke up at random tis," Alex said.
Ma Rong saw that the conversation was going nowhere, so she said, "If you don't wake up on ti, then it will be on that you couldn't take part in tomorrow's competition. I will take the bla. Now go and do as I say."
Alex finally saw that she was really serious about this. He nodded and left to his room. He sat down on his bed and started wondering.
'Why is she not telling this? Is sothing wrong with ? Is this a disability? Do I have a short lifespan? What is it?' From Ma Rong's expression and tone of voice, he knew that it wasn't anything good.
However, he was unable to tell if it was anything bad either. He thought of many possibilities, but in the end, none of them fit the situation.
'Sigh, I guess I will do as she says,' he thought and called out Pearl. The mont Pearl ca out, he told him to stay quiet and sneaked a glance at Wan Li who was busy reading his book.
Alex put Pearl into his robes and told him to start cultivating. Pearl didn't ow once at all and started cultivating. Soon, light spilled out of his robes and nurous cuts started appearing all over his body.
Wan Li accidentally caught sight of that and nearly scread. "Brother Yu, are you okay? What happened to you?" he said, clearly concerned about his situation.
He imdiately brought out a bunch of pill bottles and started flipping through them to find ones that would help Alex at the mont.
"Don't worry about , Brother Wan. This is my cultivation thod. I'm fine," Alex said.
"A-are you sure? You have so many cuts all over you," Wan Li said.
"Yes, I am sure. Please get back to your reading," Alex said. He then thought of sothing and said, "I'm going to ditate now, so, please don't bother overnight, okay?" he asked as politely as possible.
"Sure, Brother Yu," Wan Li said and got back to his studies.
Alex started to ditate. He took a deep breath to start his Qi cultivation, but the pain made it hard to focus. It was nearly impossible to blank out his mind when he had to constantly keep on feeling the pain.
'Ignore the pain. You've felt it many tis already. Ignore it,' Alex said to himself and started focusing back on the cultivation.
He ignored the pain as much as he could, but as soon as he let his mind slip away, the ignorance would slip away as well and the pain would bring him jolting back to awareness.
He kept on trying to cultivate Qi many tis after that, however, most of the ti he would forget to ignore the pain.
'I can't keep on doing the sa thing and fail without changing my approach.' He decided to try sothing else.
He started to split his consciousness. His mind was capable of focusing on 10 different things at once, although it was a little difficult. 2 things were a piece of cake.
He used a small part of his mind into ignoring the pain and the other big part to start ditating. He took deep breaths in and out. Soon, he was starting to feel like letting go of all control and just fall asleep.
But Alex kept the ignorance in check and made sure to never let go of it.
He failed to do that. In the end, he let go of the ignorance and the pain was back. Fortunately, this was enough ti to fall unconscious.
Alex slowly opened his eyes as pains creaked throughout his body. "OW! OW! OW!. Pearl stop," he ordered. "ow," Pearl said as he stopped cultivating.
The cuts all over his body disappeared and the body returned to its pristine state. In fact, it looked like he got a little bit stronger.
"Wait, did I miss the match?" he quickly turned his eyes towards the top right to check the ti. It was 6:12 am.
He had woken up on ti. "Woah, so master was right. But why? Damn, if only she explained to straight and didn't say anything convoluted like 'it's better if you find out on your own' sh*t," Alex thought.
"Damn, isn't it ti soon for us to leave for the tournant? I must be getting really hungry outside. I will eat sothing fast and return back," Alex thought and quickly logged out.
He freshened up quickly and went to the kitchen as fast as possible. He reheated so of the foods that remained from yesterday's party and started eating them.
'I can't get hungry prior to 12 pm,' he thought and ate. After eating, he returned back to the ga. Wan Li was still reading his book.
"Brother Wan, I think you should get ready to leave," Alex said. Wan Li was distracted by Alex and looked up from his book. "Did you say sothing brother Yu?" he asked.
"Aren't you going to leave? It's ti for the competition," Alex said.
"Huh?" Wan Li imdiately looked towards the window and saw the morning light.? "Oh, it's already daybreak," Wan Li said.
"Yes, Brother Wan. So get ready, we are leaving for the competition."
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