Help or be helped?

For two months, Anzar trained tirelessly. As a result, he learned the wind-blowing movement and palm-striking technique, his control over the qi improved significantly.

When he doesn't train, he will meditate, he felt less and less the need to eat and sleep, and his body is more robust.

Kahina, during this period, started to watch the progress of this relentless man, then at one evening, while Anzar repeated the same words over and over again while gathering and condensing the qi, she approached him and put herself in the same position as him, she tried to imitate him.

Anzar seeing this said nothing and let her do it.

He and this woman, who constantly reminded him of Tislit every time he looked at her, spoke very little to each other. He closed his eyes and returned to meditation as if nothing had happened.

Time passed, and every day felt like the day before, but Anzar was not bored. It has now been six months since he came into this cave. He can materialize his qi around his body, and he can make a layer of protection made of qi around his skin or concentrate it around his hand and create a sharp shape. He can directly cut through rocks like a knife cutting butter.

Before going to the cave and meditating, he first went to the river to bring water with him. Then suddenly, his gaze fell on a naked Kahina cleaning herself. He could see her perfect body, the long black hair falling on her breasts, the water dripping following the curvature of a goddess from another world. She turns around with a face devoid of expression. Her piercing gaze then landed on him.

Anzar felt a horrible pain surging deep inside him, and for a brief moment, he thought back to his wife and the painful memory of his parents. From the outside, his neutral expression, and the movements of his body, did not show any of his emotions. He continued to do what he had come for and went back to the cave, this time, he meditated for two weeks without going out.

One month later, Anzar realized that a sphere was taking shape in the middle of his body. The more he meditated, the more this sphere became visible. His qi sense could now extend to a distance of 10 km, and his physical strength and speed experienced a significant improvement.

However, this woman in front of him, who had the same posture as his, still didn't manage to unlock her meridians.

Anzar began to consider.

The wise will tell you that there can be no greater gift than giving your time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

There will even be those who will tell you that helping others is never as rewarding as when you do it for your own benefit.

If you ask the Kim family matriarch, she will answer that helping others is a waste of time and that human beings are not made for that. So there are the weak and the strong, and each remains in his place.

Anzar thought about this during his years of isolation as a farmer. Did he need help at that time?

Not really, all he needed was for the others to leave him alone.

If Kahina can open her meridian it will be thanks to her own effort.

Six months later, Anzar can be considered to have reached the middle of the Qi Condensing Realm.

The sphere inside him is more and more perceptible.

While he was meditating, he felt a faint qi fluctuation in front of him. He opened his eyes and realized that Kahina had just entered the Qi Gathering Realm.

You should know that only some can enter the Qi Gathering Realm, even with a meditation technique. For example, in the notes of the old elder, in the Song family, only 10% succeeded.

Surprised, Anzar walked towards her, put his hand on her back, and sent his sense qi. he wants to check how many meridians she had unlocked.

He counted 57 Meridians unlocked!