Chapter 80: The Circle Of Laws
"Lie here in this tomb I’ve made, using laws that shall never fade, feeding on you in a cycle of qi, it is a fair trade," Han Xuhan muttered the instructions of the dragon, feeling that he was finally on the track to success.
"The tomb feeding off the entombed through qi cycles, is this the solution? But the dragon also said that Shi Xian, the entombed disciple, would have to reach a level of cultivation where his own dao is born in order to leave the tomb. So this chain of inference is also not entirely correct..."
Shaking his head in confusion, he adjusted his sitting posture and decided to go at it. The qi reserves of his body had been emptied a while ago. He needed a refill anyway.
After having cultivated for a month, he didn’t need spirit stones to sense and keep track of raw qi, unless his goal was to speed up the session. For a simple refill like this, he could somewhat slowly absorb qi by himself anywhere, at anytime.
Entering the deep meditative state after a bit of effort, he began to draw in the raw qi from his surroundings. The pores of his skin, connected to the meridians, widened up to welcome the influx. However, Han Xuhan discovered something quite odd very quickly.
The qi around him didn’t flow inwards despite the mental connection he had established with it after the cycle initiation. Instead, the qi seemed to be repulsed by him and slowly dispersed away, further and further while he tried his best to control the qi.
What the hell is this? Is cultivation prohibited here?
....But it did seem to fit the mechanism described by the dragon. The ’Circle of Laws’ was to feed on the entombed through his cycle of qi!
His curiosity spiking up, Han Xuhan stood up in a trance and started tracking the traces of the qi using his constantly weakening mental connection.