Chapter 27 - Perfect Physique

"gasp"

"gasp"

"gasp"

Li Jie was gasping for air as he fell into a stupor,

plunging down from such a height at this pothole which was filled with a thick viscous liquid,

even though he wasn't able to see anything around him accurately due to the disorientation in his mind, which occurred due to him falling and the complete darkness in the area.

He could tell that this liquid wasn't water because it was of a thick and viscous nature, and it had a mind-numbing pungent smell as well as the liquid that got into his mouth due to his abrupt fall, had made him feel unpleasant.

Li Jie moved and brought his worn-out body out of the pothole, and everything around him was pitch dark as he didn't even know where to move,

so he sat down beside a wall where he could take support and sat down slowly,

he wasn't worried for any beast to hidden here because he was sure that this underground space neither had an entrance nor an exit, or else he would have been able to see something, there was one thing about which he was certain of, is that he was somewhere inside the hill!!!,

which is quite shocking because there were no clues relating to outside interference and he couldn't fathom in his mind, how can this place be created from inside,

without digging from outside, from what little he could see, this whole area around the weird pothole was enclosed from all around except from the top of the pothole, where he fell from.

After a while, Li Jie got up and started walking around the place to check if there was some way he could by some way find a way outside, now he couldn't just sit around doing nothing and waiting for his death, he felt that he had to do something,

while he was blindly moving around keeping his hands in front of him so that he doesn't collide with a wall, he suddenly felt something spherical where his hands were placed,

he started to pat around the spherical object lightly, Li Jie could feel some kind of thick branch shaped stone, on which the spherical object was placed, he found the spherical object unusual at first,

but when considering the pothole filled with some kind of thick liquid in this underground space which is inside the hill with no entrance, nor any exit, he didn't think much of it, as he started holding onto the spherical object with both his hands and started pulling it out,

to his surprise it came out right away without any hindrance when all of a sudden the spherical object started to glow red, it was getting brighter and brighter every second,

Li Jie felt joyous at the fact, that finally, he could look around him normally despite the crimson color, he started feeling uncomfortable when he noticed that the spherical object in his hand which resembled to that of a spherical crystal which kept glowing with increasing intensity of crimson-colored light,

when he felt that he finally couldn't take this blinding light anymore, he put the spherical object back where it was which stopped it's increase in brightness, now that he could finally see due to the crimson light present in the room,

the place where the spherical object was embedded into was some kind of lamp holder which looked unusual considering the fact that it was made of stone,

when looking closer and more clearly, his eyes widened because he saw that there was a sculpture of a young brawny man whose body muscles looked ripped in front of him, who held the stone lamp with both his hands,

the most shocking thing for Li Jie was that the sculpture in front of him depicted such a life-like appearance,

looking at the face of the sculpture which had an expression of sadness and loneliness plastered all over it's,

it's eyes conveyed sorrow and pain, and the thing that stupefied him the most was the body of the sculpture which somehow looked perfect yet it gave the feeling like it was missing something,

but the problem was that Li Jie has never in his life witnessed a man having such a beautiful and perfect physique, he has seen fighters of various stages and that of higher stages too,

he had also seen fighters with bloodline which increased the strength of a person's physique but he never gave this form of beauty which this sculpture portrayed.

Li Jie knew that he wasn't knowledgeable in the art of crafting, yet he could feel the emotions placed on the handsome looking man, he wondered who could have created this sculpture, if such a man with such a perfect body even exists,

he chuckled in his mind that he was thinking too much into this when right at that moment he noticed a rectangular-shaped bag which was sealed with a lace on top of it.

Out of curiosity he picked it up and untied it, in which he found a manual which had "PERFECT PHYSIQUE REFINEMENT" written on it's cover,

reading the title, as well as considering the physique revealed by the sculpture in front of him, made Li Jie realize that this manual contains the art of physique building practiced by the man with the perfect physique whose sculpture was placed in front of him, Li Jie felt that even the body refinement manuals placed in the Li family's library are not comparable to it.

And about the other families as well as the imperial family, he didn't know much about them, due to which he didn't jump to any conclusions regarding the manuals they possess.

As for his master, Li Jie felt that his master might not want him to learn this body refinement technique, and he can't just recklessly learn it, what if it's a demonic-based technique that will do more harm than good.

He had firmly made the decision in his mind that he will not be learning this technique until and unless he gets his master's permission.

Looking around when he found out that there's no way he could go out of this mysterious underground space, and then as if recalling something, that by the end of the week, his master will come to him, he felt that there was at least a chance of survival, so now all he has to do is wait for his master.