Ke Xue: He mastered the steel-cutting divine skill at the start.

Although it only cut through the rough iron frame, it was done with a wooden sword, which is already enough to be called a divine skill!

However, immediately afterward, a tearing sensation came from my arm, as if I had done hundreds of push-ups in one go.

Then came a wave of weakness throughout my body, followed by an intense feeling of hunger.

This body has been unconscious for too long and is extremely weak. That sword strike just now was not simply the force of the arm swing, but the force of the entire body.

The magic power begins in the calves, travels up to the thighs, through the waist, back, and arms, and is finally released!

This was a full-force strike, a high-level technique that involved the entire body. It was a powerful technique that he had mastered after years of training in the world of consciousness, and it had become as instinctive as it was!

Ordinary people exert force by using their arms, but only those who have trained in martial arts can exert force in a more subtle way.

By borrowing power from other parts of the body and gradually transmitting and strengthening it, the final manifestation of that power is truly astonishing!

With a muffled groan, he collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath as a burning sensation spread through his lungs, like the abdominal pain one experiences after running several kilometers.

"Am I now a one-hit wonder?"

Miyazaki Yu couldn't help but laugh. Without having lost freedom, one cannot know its preciousness, and Miyazaki Yu was exactly like that at this moment.

The feeling of going from death to being trapped in a strange place, and then regaining freedom, is simply amazing.

"Thud—Ah!"

The hall door was opened, and the person who entered, upon seeing the scene before them, immediately threw what they were holding to the ground, which is why they made a sound.

Looking up, he saw a tall, slender girl staring at him in shock, as if she had seen some rare animal.

"Miyazaki, you're awake? You're actually awake! That's wonderful!"

The girl's eyes sparkled with delight, her surprise evident.

"Are you Ran Mouri?"

Although he had existed in the world of consciousness for a long time, he had just woken up and was still unable to distinguish the boundary between reality and illusion, so he was somewhat at a loss.

To put it bluntly, there are still some people who are unclear about their identities.

He couldn't quite tell whether he was that middle-aged man from China or Miyazaki Yu, the orphan from a small dojo.

Especially after regaining consciousness, he gradually integrated the emotional memories of this body, and only then did he discover a strange fact.

This world is neither the world of the past nor a parallel world; the history of this world is quite different from the original history.

While the overall global landscape shares some similarities, there are many more things that are difficult to comprehend.

For example, the girl in front of us is named Ran Mouri.

According to my memory, this girl was just a name from a Japanese anime, a fictional character.

But now, it's right here in front of me!

This is really giving me a headache. Emotional memory and knowledge memory have completely different effects on people. The current emotional shock has left him speechless.

Ran Mouri rushed over and helped him up from the ground.

"That's great, you've finally woken up from your coma. But don't you know you're still very weak? Although your muscles haven't atrophied, you're still extremely weak. How can anyone feel at ease with you like this?"

The girl seemed very concerned about him. After listening to Ran Mouri's account, Miyazaki Yu finally understood what had happened.

It turns out that since he fell into a coma a year ago, he was almost given a death sentence by the hospital. After those gangsters saw this result...

They wanted to take the opportunity to kill him and make him disappear from this world completely.

Fortunately, at that time, a very influential person stepped in to help her. That person was Ran Mouri's mother, Eri Kisaki.

That's why this person, who was in a deep coma, was able to keep the dojo, continue living there, and receive meticulous care.

"However, Miyazaki-kun, I am truly sorry. In order to have money to hire someone to take care of you, my mother had to mortgage your dojo. I am so sorry."

Miyazaki Yu sighed softly, a smile appearing on her face.

"No need to apologize. In fact, I should thank you, Mori-kun. If it weren't for your and Eri-san's help, I would probably be dead by now."

The dead don't need a dojo. On the contrary, as long as I'm alive, I have the opportunity to rebuild a dojo. Perhaps this is fate.

Seeing his slightly gloomy expression, Ran Mouri felt a pang of sadness.

Miyazaki Yu grew up with her since childhood, and their relationship can be described as childhood sweethearts. He has always been strong-willed and stubborn, and even if he suffers, he will only keep it to himself.

As a result, he suffered so many misfortunes: his parents passed away, he was threatened by gangsters when he inherited the dojo, and he was seriously injured and remained in a coma for more than a year.

Now that he's come to his senses, he's even lost his own dojo!

Although these events happened a long time ago for him, they must feel like they happened just yesterday for Miyazaki Yu, and the blow to his heart is unimaginable.

She is a very kind girl with a heart as pure as ice and snow. Now that her close friend has suffered such a blow, she can't help but feel a pang of sorrow.

Seeing the girl's remorseful expression, Miyazaki Yu felt a surge of emotion.

He knew very well that the girl must have paid a heavy price to make his body the way it was now.

Many people who are in a coma for a long time will experience a variety of problems.

For example, muscle atrophy, bedsores, and organ failure are all possible outcomes.

Although this body is not particularly strong now, it is still functioning normally. Although it is somewhat weak, it is undoubtedly a miracle!

Besides the influence of his own consciousness, Ran Mouri's help was certainly indispensable.

Looking at the girl's face, his heart warmed, and he secretly made a vow.

"Washing machine, washing machine, now that I've come into this world, your relationship with Xiaolan ends here. It's better to keep such a good girl with me!"

Chapter Four: Mastering the Body and Inner Vision

After chatting with the girl for a while, she very virtuously started cooking the ingredients she had brought.

She quickly prepared several delicious and visually appealing dishes, truly a model of a virtuous wife and loving mother.

In his previous life, being an outstanding man meant that cooking was an essential skill.

So he wanted to go up and help, but the girl ruthlessly refused, telling him to just wait and eat.

This was clearly because she was taking care of Miyazaki Yu, who had just woken up. Moreover, the girl had taken care of the drunkard Kogoro Mouri for so long that she subconsciously thought that cooking was something women should do.

So they did all of these things directly, leaving Miyazaki Yu to wait on the sidelines.

So he waited while admiring the girl's figure. The girl had a shapely figure, and was especially tall, but she had not yet fully matured and was at the age of budding.

In other words, she needs more time!

Soon a large table of food was ready. The girl's cooking skills were truly excellent. Years of taking care of her alcoholic father had honed her culinary skills.

Miyazaki Yu didn't stand on ceremony and started enjoying it right away.

Just as the food was about to be prepared and its aroma wafted into his nostrils, he realized something: his hunger was incredibly intense!

This is actually quite normal. His body has been dormant for too long. Although his physical body still maintains considerable strength due to his active mind, it is already severely lacking in energy.

The moment I smelled the aroma of food, my hunger was instantly aroused!

At this moment, Miyazaki Yu was unaware that although his physical body was very weak, it was already different from that of a normal person.

That sense of control over power I had before was the beginning!

He began to wolf down his food, and as soon as it entered his stomach, he felt a warm current spread rapidly, and his whole body felt refreshed.

The stomach begins to secrete a large amount of gastric acid, and once the food enters the stomach, it is broken down at a speed far exceeding that of a normal person.

Ran Mouri, who was standing nearby, was stunned by what she saw. From her perspective, this guy was terrifying.

In the blink of an eye, he ate several bowls of rice and several plates of dishes, enough for her to eat for a whole day, but he quickly devoured them all.

"Hey, slow down! I'm not going to fight you for it!"

The girl was startled when she saw him like this, and quickly tried to stop him.

Miyazaki Yu swallowed the rice in her mouth, feeling a little embarrassed.

"I was just really hungry, but I didn't expect that my appetite would increase so much after I fainted!"

He now realizes that it's not because of hunger, but because of his body's needs; his body is currently very thirsty for energy.

If he were to eat freely, his appetite would be several times that of an average man.

Not wanting to scare the girl, he quickly regained his composure. Ran Mouri didn't think much of it and, after watching him finish his meal, took the initiative to clear the dishes and did some housework for him.

"Now you should rest well. Don't worry about the house. Although it has been mortgaged, you can still live there. Even if you can't pay off the loan within three years, you can still live there for another two years. I will contact Aunt Meihui so that the nursing work can be stopped. I will contact Mom to help you with the remaining mortgage payment."

Maintaining and caring for someone in a long-term coma is an extremely difficult task, and the financial cost is enormous.

Ran Mouri had no choice but to ask her lawyer mother for help. She mortgaged the dojo and used the proceeds to pay for the care and food.

However, according to the mortgage contract, the dojo will only be taken away if the mortgage is not paid off within three years. In other words, he can stay at the dojo for a while longer.

Moreover, once the remaining mortgage payment is received, there will be some money in hand, and the temporary crisis will be over.

After seeing the girl off, Miyazaki Yu began to recall the strange state she had experienced earlier.

"All my muscles and bones tensed up at once, like a puppet on strings. Although I had mastered the use of power in the world of consciousness before..."

However, because it is only a state of consciousness, many things are just imagined and have not been actually practiced.

The first step in spiritual practice is to master your body; the first step in mastering your body is to abandon distracting thoughts!

In various religions, there are practices that involve abandoning distracting thoughts.

They use various religious rituals to calm their minds, sometimes even using hallucinogenic drugs or drinking alcohol to achieve a state of absolute tranquility.

However, distracting thoughts are not so easy to get rid of, which is related to the brain's mechanisms.

The brain's habitual processing mechanism will unconsciously occupy a portion of processing resources, just like the brain and computer chips, judging the current situation based on the external information it sees.

These judgments based on information will form two things in the brain.

One is autonomous judgment, and the other is involuntary association. Involuntary association is what is known as distracting thoughts.

These distracting thoughts occupy a significant portion of the brain's information processing resources, resulting in a waste of brain resources.

No wonder the first step in any form of spiritual practice is to eliminate distracting thoughts; it's to conserve brain resources.

His years in the realm of consciousness taught him to concentrate quickly and at any time, and to quickly eliminate distracting thoughts that are difficult for ordinary people to get rid of.

His mind quickly focused, and he slowly calmed down, entering a state of tranquility.