Chapter 185: Artificial Intelligence
When Anji woke up, it was already dark outside. Panicking, she wondered why nobody woke her up for her training session. Not to mention, she had fallen asleep at the table right after the meal. Why didn’t her shifu reprimand her?
"Up so soon?" a familiar voice cut through Anji’s panic. "We’re cancelling training for a few days. If you’re not tired, consider taking a bath first and eating more. Doctor Yun said you are still dehydrated."
Turning to the voice, Anji spotted her shifu’s figure in the dark at the dining table, fiddling with something.
"Shifu? But I’m already this late for training."
Pausing from what she was doing, Yan Ping turned towards the direction of the child and scanned her using her second sight. Thankfully, the foreign energy had been fully adopted into Anji’s body. The modified artificial cores were also no longer sealing Anji’s spiritual network from exchanging energy with the environment. Despite that, Anji’s natural life energy was seeping out of her body rapidly like a leaking tap. The girl would have to start learning how to control that first without the aid of seals in her meridians to understand how to become one with nature.
"Don’t you feel anything different in your body?" the blind woman asked.
Prompted to think about it, Anji paused to self-assess. Nothing much felt different from before. She was still exhausted and thirsty. However, after circulating her energy, she found that there was almost no resistance, and the speed it circulated scared her. It was as if she were sliding down a muddy slope with no way to stop until she hit the bottom of the hill.
Snapping her golden eyes open, Anji quickly realised that she had accidentally entered her second-sight state. Bewildered by the lack of control over her energy, Anji panicked.
Chuckling at Anji’s struggles, Yan Ping beckoned her over.
"It would be difficult to get used to your new spiritual network, so we’ll take a break while you adjust to the new artificial core adjustments I’ve made. I see that you’ve started to understand the concept of becoming one with nature, even if the methods you attempted were very unrefined."