What if I close my eyes and never wake up again?
Zhang Xiaohua, who had given up figuring out the why, exercised his heart method, driving the inner strength around his meridians for a full cycle. It felt different than he'd imagined, and Zhang Xiaohua found it intriguing. The idea of having this power within his body was fascinating to him.
With a playful mindset, Zhang Xiaohua circulated the Worry-free Heart Sutra's inner strength through the meridians of his entire body thirty-six times. As he was about to get up after completing his training, a thought occurred to him. He silently moved his heart method again, extending his perception outward, but when he tentatively sensed his surroundings, he found that the Heaven and Earth energy that had been surging the night before was now nowhere to be found. What was left was a profound emptiness, his perception unable to grasp even the tiniest bit of the vital energy.
Zhang Xiaohua furrowed his brows in confusion.