Chapter 0006 – If I Become a Heavenly Demon – Absolute Return

Early in the morning, I woke up early, packed my bag, and said to my father, “It’s time for us to go down the mountain.”

“Down the mountain? It’s not easy to come here, how can we hunt a tiger back?”

I knew that when he said that, he didn’t really want to hunt tigers, but he was still satisfied with my performance in the past two days and wanted to spend a little more time with me.

“That would be great.” I said with a smile.

“Well what?”

“I’ve prepared for the next day, too.”

“Cut the crap and lead the way!”

“Yes!”

My father and I, once again, stepped into the deep woods.

……

“Close your eyes.” Father said suddenly.

“Oh.” I closed my eyes as I was told.

“The target is a hundred feet away to the right.”

It’s farther away than yesterday.

“This time, you’re going to feel the wind.”

“Feel the wind?”

I was puzzled, but I didn’t dare ask more questions.

“Take your true qi and blend it into the wind.”

I’ve been practicing for so many years, but I’ve never thought of integrating my true qi into the wind.

No one has ever taught me, nor has any secret book ever documented this method.

A feeling of unprecedented excitement surged through his heart.

Knowing and doing, of course, are two different things.

“Release your true qi first.”

I followed the method I used yesterday to find the boar and carefully released a strand of my true qi.

“Too slow, too cautious, it’s just a carving technique, in real life, you have to extend your true qi as fast as you can to where your target is.”

However, how easy is it to integrate your true qi into the wind?

I could feel the wind and I could feel the true qi, but they were like two parallel lines that never met.

And, by wind, my father did not mean the howling gale, but the air that flows around us.

I must find a stream of air flowing toward my target and then incorporate my true qi into it.

I’ve tried all sorts of things, but never get anywhere.

My father didn’t say a word or rush me, just stood there quietly with his hands behind his back, staring at the distant peaks.

Why, when you look at someone’s back, can you feel their life?

I was supposed to feel the majesty and dominance of a strong man from my father’s back.

But I felt a tinge of loneliness and despondency.

“Nice.”

Suddenly, I heard my father’s voice.

I opened my eyes and realized that the true qi I had released had extended a hundred feet away, and then, it suddenly broke off.

“I …… I can’t believe I did that?”

I looked at my father in amazement, just now, I had actually, unintentionally, incorporated my true qi into the wind.

Perhaps it was because, my cultivation experience in my previous life had made me more comfortable with the control of my true qi.

“It doesn’t matter, that tiger is far away.” Father said lightly.

……

As the sun was setting, we came across the tiger again.

“That’s it!” Father said.

I still can’t see it, but I trust my father’s judgment.

I was overwhelmed by his ability to sense the exact location and scent of the tiger.

“It’s a hundred and fifty feet away, use your true qi and find it.”

I closed my eyes again and released my true qi, trying to incorporate it into the wind.

I know that I can do it, it just takes a little time.

I kept trying and tweaking and finally, I got the hang of it.

I can’t deliberately incorporate my true qi into the wind, but rather, I have to let my true qi, following the wind’s trajectory, flow naturally.

It’s like two friends, walking side by side, mingling with each other, not separating them.

“That’s what it feels like!”

My true qi, transformed into an invisible thread, followed the wind and instantly extended a hundred and fifty feet away.

Just as I was trying to probe my target, a deafening tiger’s roar suddenly rang out.

I was shocked and my true energy snapped.

“It’s really a tiger!”

I opened my eyes in surprise and looked at my father.

My father also looked at me in surprise; he didn’t seem to think that I had mastered this technique so quickly.

“You have to practice diligently to integrate your true qi into the wind, the more you release, the longer you will live.”

“Yes, I remember.”

I will definitely release more true energy than you because, I must live!

“Now, close your eyes and feel my true energy.”

I closed my eyes and released my true qi to sense my father’s scent.

Just as I was able to find the tiger, I was able to find him.

Slowly, carefully, I felt the true energy around my father.

My mouth, wider and wider.

“Father, what …… is this?”

I saw that my father’s surroundings were covered with dense threads of true qi, like a giant spider’s web, firmly wrapping him in it.

Those threads of true qi, extended to such an extreme distance that I couldn’t even probe to the end of them.

If anyone wanted to attack my father, they would have to go through this “spider web”, which was almost impossible.

Even his father, who possessed such great power, had ultimately lost to Hua Wuji?

How the hell did he do that?

Once again, I was deeply shocked by the strength of Hua’s martial arts.

……

As night falls, the campfire blazes.

“My killer, that’s what.”

From my leather pouch, I took out a jar of fine wine, which was my father’s favorite.

I pulled out a clean wine glass, filled it, and handed it to my father.

“Good wine!” Father exclaimed.

“Too strong for me.”

In fact, I have a good capacity for alcohol. During those years when I was searching for retrospective Dhamma materials, I often borrowed alcohol to drown my sorrows, and over time, I developed a good capacity for alcohol.

I just didn’t want to be too flashy, in front of my father.

“How can there be a member of a demonic sect who doesn’t love to drink?”

“What does it matter if you can’t hold your liquor? I am more afraid of the human heart than of poisoned wine.”

“Human hearts?”

Father sneered and asked, “Would you kill me to stay alive?”

I was silent for a few moments and said, “No, the tiger’s poison.”

Actually, that’s a lie.

I would have killed my father if I really had to.

How can he be more important than my life when today is the first real interaction between us, father and son?

“Do you think, then, that I will kill you?” Father asked rhetorically.

“If you would really hesitate, then don’t say the words ‘hearts and minds’ so easily.”

I saw the answer in my father’s eyes.