Chapter 360 Meditation On The Stars (Part One)
Three days before the All Peaks Competition, all the thirty-three peaks'' ranking lists would be frozen.
During these three days, challenging someone to a duel was forbidden to determine the name list of
thepetitors.
Due to that, the day before they scheduled to suspend the ranking lists,petitions transpired in all
the thirty-three peaks'' arenas.
Some disciples appeared to rank low by hiding their true abilities from past matches. It was often on the
last day when they would go all out, as they hoped to be the candidates of the All Peaks
Competition.
Those who had already been on the list would also try their best to maintain their rankings for the
reason that once they lost, they might fall out of the list.
Intensepetitions were also going on in the arena of Drizzle Peak.
Apart from Zen and Yehudi, the other disciples who ranked from third ce to the seventh ce
received a challenge to duel. The disciples who ranked ninth and twenty-second had even reced the
disciples who ranked sixth and seventh!
As soon as the ranking lists had been frozen, the name list of the participants for the All Peaks
Competition was settled before the master of Drizzle Peak handed it in.
In thest three days, Zen did not go to the Lake of the Magical Fish and Seven Star Sword Light
tform for cultivation, but stayed in his room for meditation instead.
Both cultivation methods of Heavenly Ogre Fist and Spiritual Thorn were extensive and profound. The
former represented the most basic method of life vitality attack, while thetter represented the method
of soul attack.
In addition to meditating these two books, Zen continued to study the Sun Moon Stars Picture.
The first time he had seen the picture, Zen felt his eyes drawn to it. However, when he had seen it
againter, he exhibited no such feelings anymore.
Among the Contemtion Pictures in the fairy pce, the Sun Moon Stars Picture ced first. It was
evident that he couldn''tpletelyprehend the content it contained. Even so, he tried his best to
contemte.
In the first two days, besides practicing Heavenly Ogre Fist and reading Spiritual Thorn asionally, he
neither ate nor drank and put all his efforts into the study of the Sun Moon Stars Picture.
However, after over forty hours of contemting, he felt he had achieved nothing.
On the morning of the third day, everything around him seemed suddenly distorted as he looked at the
Sun Moon Stars Picture.
''Why am I dizzy? Is it because I stayed up too long?'' Zen thought to himself, carefully patting himself
on the forehead. In his present physical status, he would not have felt dizzy even if he did not eat or
drink. Then it urred to him that perhaps the origin of his dizziness had something to do with the
picture being so exhausting. Although his soul was much stronger than the average after being refined
in the fire, the Sun Moon Stars Picture was by no means ordinary, and his soul could not stand it after
consuming so much energy.
To his surprise, after a blink of an eye, he found the surrounding space even more distorted. And as
time went on, it had spun more and faster.
''What happened?''
Finally, he felt something was amiss.
When he had calmed down, he found that he was standing in front of that Sun Moon Stars Picture.
After a short moment, with a stroke of confusion, he was sucked into the picture.
In the Sun Moon Stars Picture...
When Zen got his bearings, he found himself standing in a space, which was neither in the sky nor on
the ground.
Not far away from the space, an enormous fireball glowed. Its mes emitted a dangerous deterrent.
''Is that... the sun?''
The man could not help but be in awe.
Although the Eastern Region had a very long history, no one from there had ever figured out what the
sun was yet.
Thirty thousand feet above the ground was the tallest mountain of the Eastern Region. Rumors had it
that because it was too high, there was hardly enough air at the top, and almost no one could endure it.
However, despite such a harsh environment, some remarkably powerful masters were still able to
conquer it.
After climbing around ten thousand feet, there were strong gusts of wind. They were so powerful that
even gold and iron would be crushed into pieces by the wind.
As a result, even those powerful masters could not repel its strength.
Even so, some masters hade for the sake of exploring. It was said that once a great master had
broken through the hurricane and flown up with his very high power and robust body.Belonging ? N?velDram/a.Org.
As much as he had thought that he could see the sun and the moon finally, after passing through the
hurricane, he only found endless entwined cracks in the space, like ayer of thick fish scales standing
straight up in the sky.
As for what hadin beyond this cracked zone, even the ancient master could not have provided an
answer.
As humans could not explore the sky, legends about the sun, the moon, and the stars were more
perplexing for them.
Thus, there were countless stories with sun, moon and stars as the theme.
Although he was far away from the sun while standing in the space, Zen was still shocked by its
intimidating force when he looked at it.
''My current consciousness is in the Contemtion Picture. It must be God''s intention that I get in here.
It''s a shame that I could onlyprehend so little about the Sun Moon Stars Picture. With my current
ability, it''s too hard for me to contemte the sun!'' he thought to himself.
When Zen cast his eyes onto another ball, he saw a bright light, which was much quieter and softer
than the feeling of tyranny that the sun had conveyed.
When looking at the sun, his eyes felt sour. On the contrary, as he gazed at another ball, his eyes felt a
pleasant coolness andfort.
It was the moon.
Zen noticed that a shadow had appeared on the moon. The shadow outlined the curve of the ball and
caused it to present different shapes, which were the so-called first quarter moon, thest quarter
moon and the like.
Behind these two giant balls were countless stars.
These stars were the exact objects that Zen had wanted to observe and study.