First Step

In the quiet night, I sat crossed legged against a tree in the forest.

Thinking of the forest, I never told you all the name of this forest.

It's called The Ancient Forest. Why, I don't know. People don't know. It was called that from a very long time.

Maybe there are some ancient secrets hiding in the forest.

Mysterious beings biding their time.

Or it could just be a simple forest.

If you don't know about something then it's best to ignore it. And therefore I completely set aside my interest regarding depths of the forests.

At this moment my focus was completely on the Eagle Spirit Technique.

I could feel that today was the day when I finally would tap into spirit energy.

All of a sudden my five senses dulled. I couldn't hear anything nor could I open my eyes. And I didn't try to do so.

Instead suddenly my perception intensified.

I could sense my surroundings in a magnified way.

The tall tree behind me.

The leaves rustling due to wind.

The sound of crickets and the water flowing in a narrow creek.

Everything was as if suddenly new to me. I could feel what I never felt before from them.

I focused and saw a mysterious flow of energy flowing around me.

It was present everywhere. It was moving in every direction in a random way.

Or maybe it was flowing in a mysterious way that I couldn't even fathom.

I instinctively knew that it was the spirit energy.

I could finally feel it.

Immediately I tried to perceive it.

I started repeating the technique again and the energy started wrapping around me.

A very miniscule amount of it went inside my body and moved in a mystical pattern.

The energy went through every part of my body.

I immediately felt light and full of power.

After completing a round that small part of energy went straight into my heart and as if a glass shattered everything around me returned to normal.

I opened my eyes and jumped from my sitting position.

I immediately looked up and gave a piercing roar.

My voice sounded throughout the area.

All the bottled up emotions and pent up stress was released.

I felt ecstatic.

From the moment I had left my village, I was under constant pressure.

Now I had taken the first step towards the future.

This was my journey's first and most important moment.

After the outburst I was finally a little calm.

I reigned my emotions in and instantly started evacuating the area. My shout must have alerted nearby animals.

There are not many beasts in the area.

Almost all of them have been hunted as the area is in the vicinity of the city but it's better to be cautious.

So I immediately left the area.

After Xavier left the area a silhouette appeared at the place.

It stood for some time probably contemplating something.

Then it started moving towards the direction Xavier went.

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Xavier stopped at a waterfall. It was his favourite place.

The water in the creak was clear and being near the city not many wild animals came near this place.

For the sake of practicing he hadn't had a proper bath these days so he immediately slipped inside the water after taking off his clothes.

He immersed himself in the water and felt completely relaxed.

All the stress and fatigue was removed.

After a while he moved to sit on a small flat rock beneath the waterfall.

It was a great place to practice. He didn't previously used it as he needed to meditate and completely concentrate.

Now he could reduce the restrictions a little. So he went up and sat there.

He anxiously wanted to test the effects of absorbing spirit energy. After running the spirit technique he could feel that once again a very miniscule amount of energy was absorbed into his heart.

According to the method recorded, he still hasn't reached the Body Foundation stage.

First he will need to accumulate the required amount of energy in the heart.

At this moment there was practically no increase in his strength other than having a relaxed and fresh feeling in his body.

He was not disheartened as he knew that given enough time he will be able to break into that stage.

He decided that it was time to focus on the other boxing technique as well.

Due to the monotonous routine in the past few days of completely focusing on tapping spirit energy, he felt a little dull.

It was best to change the focus to other aspects. He decided it was time to learn the boxing technique.

He immediately got into the required stance and started following the instructions of the technique.