The perks of Kundalini mana

Hugo started with practicing the Psykhe-Mental-Exercise for a few minutes, as he sifted through the manual in his mind.

According to the Kratos manual, the pulmonary mana channel was next in line in the progression of building up the system of conduits that linked with a mystic's esoteric body.

Opening the mana channel would enable Hugo's lungs to be nourished by world energy, thereby noticeably enhancing his endurance and vitality. The instant he opened this channel, he would gain the ability to replenish some energy even through the mundane act of breathing.

[Here I come…] He steeled himself and suppressed his bubbly emotions.

Still seated in the lotus position, he focused on visualizing the pulmonary mana channel which sat along the midline of his chest.

Through conjecture, Hugo had surmised that visualizing the mana channels seemed to be the most efficient method of utilizing his enhanced soul to aid the opening of the mana channels situated in his esoteric body.

Hugo slowly transitioned into the rigorous exercise of practicing the Kratos-Body-Yoga. And after holding the lotus-pose for some time, he transitioned into the baby-pose as instructed in the manual.

He then moved on to the cow-pose, followed it up with the sphinx-pose, and finally settled into the bow-pose which was the most essential in the opening up of the pulmonary mana channel.

To achieve this position, he first lay down on his belly and placed his hands alongside his torso with his palms facing upwards.

He then exhaled, bending his knees backward; and slowly brought his heels closer to his buttocks. Hugo then reached back with both his hands and took hold of his ankles to complete the pose, making his body take on the shape of a bow.

He felt his breathing become more strained as his belly was pressed against the carpeted floor. However, he maintained the Fibonacci-Breathing-Sequence and adjusted his breaths to fill more into the back of his torso.

Hugo was now a true expert at persistence.

[A simple breathing difficulty won't halt my training today.] Hugo mused as he continued maintaining the yoga pose.

In a matter of minutes, he had started switching into the advanced sequences of the Fibonacci-Breathing-Exercise. In the meantime, he began to sense some mana particles cruising through his unobstructed 'aorta' and 'vena cava' channels.

As Hugo increased his focus on visualizing the mana channels, a lateral image of his aorta, vena cava, and pulmonary channels appeared in his mind's eye.

"Aahh!"

Hugo moaned in pleasure as he felt a trace of energy rising upwards from the base of his spine, towards the other opened channels.

[Is this my Kundalini mana?] Hugo pondered as he focused a sliver of concentration on the base chakra situated below the spine. For Hugo's strengthened soul, this feat was as effortless as drinking porridge.

Within his base-chakra, the coiled vortex of energy, shaped like a serpent biting its tail, started spinning clockwise. As its angular velocity increased, a trace of otherworldly energy broke away from the coil and rushed out, howling towards his pulmonary mana channel.

The energy was like a surging tide, advancing with indomitable momentum towards the mana channel.

In his mind, Hugo could perceive an extremely minute obstruction prohibiting his kundalini mana from rising to the channel that linked his lungs with the aorta and vena-cava channels.

"PoP"

The obstruction gave way to his surging Kundalini mana with a popping sound akin to the opening of a beer canister. In a flash, the otherworldly energy proceeded to fill up his major lung mana channel.

"Aaaah…" Hugo moaned in pleasure and bliss.

[This pleasure should be even greater than the almost sanctified act of procreation.] He mused as he felt his pulmonary mana channel being nourished by mana.

Hugo felt like he was on cloud nine as energy, suffused with vitality, rushed into his lung mana channels, thereby easing his breathing.

"Opening up my pulmonary mana channel should increase the efficiency of the Fibonacci-Breathing-Sequence," Hugo thought aloud as he examined the transformations happening in his body.

[The Kundalini mana is all the legends make it out to be. Today's training was much easier than yesterday's.] Hugo mused as he recalled the torture he had endured to open his first two major mana channels.

Although Hugo took a moment to wallow in the bliss of having opened up his third mana channel, he was still utterly unsatisfied.

"Only by training much faster than any of the ancient mystics of the old era, will I be able to get a handle on my Kundalini-Divine mana," Hugo resolved as he recalled his conversation with Tracy the previous day.

He wasn't well versed with how mystics were graded on Gaia. However, he had a gut feeling that the realms of advancement were almost certainly identical to those mentioned in the Kratos manual.

His aunt had mentioned that one could differentiate a 'rank-1' from a 'rank-9' mystic apprentice just by counting the number of mana channels they had opened.

Whilst in the apprentice realm, only ten major channels needed to be opened to breakthrough to the scholar realm. And at the scholar realm, another ten would similarly be unblocked as the mystic advanced from the 'rank-1' to the 'rank-9' grade of mystic power.

However, in the Kratos manual, the ranks '1' to '9' were absent for the apprentice and scholar realms. A mystic had to open up all the myriad major and minor channels before even beginning to connect with his earth-star chakra.

[But this poses the question; why are Gaian mystics stopping at only opening twenty major channels? I should find a way to help Tracy and the rest open up the rest of their channels.] Hugo deliberated as he continued sifting through the manual in his mind.

The manual mandated that a practitioner would only qualify as a mystic when every single 'minor' and 'major' channel in his body was unobstructed. The apprentice and scholar realms in the manual were entirely dedicated to this.

"To the scholar realm today…" Hugo voiced as he focused his mind on information about the mana channels in his arms and legs.

His aim was to have the mana channels in his arms, legs, hands, and feet open by the end of that day. Only then would he breakthrough to the mystic scholar realm, and significantly increase his strength and agility.

Hugo once again relaxed his entire body and began practicing the Fibonacci-Breathing-Sequence more. He maintained his prone position, whilst also concentrating on visualizing his arms' mana-channels.