A Glimpse of Hell (1)

In the middle of a large lake, sat a little boat, gently rocking with the motions of the water. There sat a young man, crossed legged, eyes closed. Hanging off the side of his boat was a fishing rod with a bait casted out. 

The young man took a deep breath, and the surrounding spiritual qi flowed into his body, forming a strand of spiritual qi that travelled down his qi channels until it reached his lower abdomen, where his spiritual core was located. There, the qi strand flowed within his spiritual core in a circular fashion. 

He opened his eyes as he breathed out, and his face twisted in a smile as he chuckled hoarsely in despair... the qi strand that was flowing within his spiritual core was spiralling outwards, and within a mere few breaths of time, it had flowed out of his body and dissipated into the air.