The Lord of the Universe

Ch.61 - Deviation

Xiang Shin looked at the old man who was fishing in the middle of this Spirit Beast-filled Mosnter Forest.

Xiang Shin was naturally at a loss as to how could the old man enter this dangerous forest. He could not feel any aura enveloping his body, looking like an ordinary person in general.

So Xiang Shin thought he was a stray old man. But somehow Xiang Shin's instincts said something different.

“Grandfather, what are you doing in the middle of this forest?” Xiang Shin walked up to the old man to stand right beside him, looking at the face of the old man whose art was not simple, “didn't grandfather know that this forest was filled with dangerous Spirit Beasts?”

“Ahaha, I have some children but as I recall, I never had any grandchildren. Which of my children keeps my grandson's whereabouts secret?”

Xiang Shin smiled wryly at the old man's reply, “I respect you for being older than me by calling you grandfather, but you instead mock me!”

Xiang Shin sat beside the old man, looking at the not-so-big lake right in front of him.

“You haven't answered my question.”

“The answer should have been you clearly see.”

“Yes you are fishing but the problem is how can you be in this dangerous place, grandfather?”

“If this place is dangerous then why are you also here?”

“As for you,” Xiang Shin was silent, he was lazy to have a conversation with the old man.

A few minutes later, the two remained silent before Xiang Shin reopened his voice.

“Have you been here long?”

“Not too,” the old man answered as was.

“You got a lot of fish?”

“None.”

“...”

Xiang Shin had never fished before, but he had heard that fishing required patience.

“This is take, we fish together,” the old man gave one regular fishing rod to Xiang Shin.

Xiang Shin picked it up without saying anything and went fishing. Though he planned to train the experience of using a formation array but he instead fished with an unknown old man.

A dozen minutes passed, the two of them still got nothing, even their bait was never approached by any fish again until it was struck.

Xiang Shin was still patient because fishing required patience. At least that was what he thought until 1 hour passed he still did not get a single fish, as well as the old man.

“Alright, I don't think there's any fish here. Grandpa, what if we go find another place?”

The old man only smiled faintly without turning his head towards Xiang Shin.

“Young people, you need to know that the fish has very sensitive senses. Do you think the fish would dare to approach if you still gave off such a powerful aura?”

Xiang Shin raised his eyebrows before taking small care.

“I get it now, you're no ordinary parent. Even I can't feel the slightest bit of aura in your body. You must not be an ordinary person,” this is the first time Xiang Shin can't feel someone's aura, “but what did you mean earlier it gave off such a powerful aura? I'm sure I've hidden my aura pretty well.”

“Then what should I do? I've hidden my aura as best as I can,” Xiang Shin feels he can get an important lesson from this old man.

“Precision is the key. Without calmness, your aura will not be able to be hidden completely.”

“Is that? But I think I was very calm,” Xiang Shin began to ponder, “then what kind of calm does this old man mean?”

How did he get that calm? True calm.

The old Peia raised her eyebrows when she saw that Xiang Shin had already begun to be able to learn just a few words from her.

“This child is very genius, unfortunately he is in a place like this,” muttered the old man.

Xiang Shin put away all the burdens he felt, the burdens in his heart and mind, the desires, ambitions, hopes and whatever else that could mess up the calm in his heart and mind.

Xiang Shin now understood what true calm was.

The longer Xiang Shin grew late, his expression became flat and his eyes lost their light, looking like the eyes of a dead person, to the point where Xiang Shin heard a rope-like sound breaking.

The old man suddenly felt an unpleasant premonition. Reflex he directs his woodwork to the right.

*TAK!

Two woods clashed, emitting strong air waves until the lake water churned.

The old man frowned looking at Xiang Shin's extremely cold expression as well as eyes that looked like a dead person.

Xiang Shin twisted his body, taking a kick aimed at the old man's head.

Old men easily avoid by jumping away.

“What happened to him?” Old man feels that if something is wrong with Xiang Shin, “he seems to have a deviation in the state of enlightenment.”

The state of enlightenment was the moment where a cultivator gained the key to an understanding. When cultivators entered the state of enlightenment, they were like trying to open the door to obtain a certain secret of understanding.

If a successful cultivator were to undergo a state of enlightenment then they would gain new abilities, but if it failed then it would have a bad impact, starting from the deep wounds, the disability of even the worst was death.

While the current condition of Xiang Shin is a condition of deviation, where this deviation is very rare until the unknown cause and how to deal with the deviation.

However some say the condition of deviation could occur because a cultivator was too deep in understanding a thing, making their body unable to accommodate the many understandings to cause deviations.

Xiang Shin leaped to attack the old man but he did not use any energy at all.

With wooden hooks and thread with fishing hooks, attacking like using a sword and whip at the same time.

The old man served Xiang Shin without using any energy like that young man. This made the old man feel even more strange.

Did Xiang Shin really experience any irregularities? Normally deviant cultivators would go berserk like losing their minds, no matter what it would definitely bring out its full strength.

But Xiang Shin was not so, his movement of swinging weapons was very natural and orderly, absolutely nothing carried away and...

Before the old man analyzed further, the fishing line's eyes were already several inches in front of his eyes. Reflexes he uses his energy to deflect the fishing rod from bouncing.

That was when the old man saw a faint smile on Xiang Shin's lips as if he had lost.