Fatherly Asura

The tang of blood was upon his tongue. A wash that soon stained the straying hairs curling across his upper lip. Strange, wayward thoughts drew him to [Of Perennial Shade] and what opinion she would hold on such an unseemly appearance.

When next they met, if, perhaps, it would not matter.

His allegiance was clear.

[Divine Qi] proved a dragon to control as it soared through [Meridian], [Channel] and [Core], possessing no equilibrium or kindly properties. This vaunted force- this energy of which a single droplet inspired continental genocide- held no equal.

Hushi and Shuidi had not the luxury to divide their attention and direct the [Cloud Dragon Sutra] to cultivate it slowly.

It was akin to pressing one’s lips to a volcanic eruption and drinking deep.

Further blood belched from their lungs as the hours whiled away, and when this grand undertaking was finally concluded, the three souls comprising the Fatherly [Asura] could scarce recognise their inner pathways.

“Cultivating the Path of [Body] was a simplicity, was it not?” Fu heaved, frothing [Water Qi] through the layers of his flesh to cleanse himself wholly. “One might wish for those days again.”

Shuidi’s attention was distant.

Hushi’s sparked a resonance of sharp pain as he further tempered his own [Meridians]. Now this was a thing of great fluctuation, balancing and shifting their mundane, if pure stockpile of [Spectral Qi] with both [Primordial Qi] and the latest addition of [Divine Qi].

Three powers that were as vastly different as Heaven and Earth.

[Spectral Qi] was multifaceted. Elemental. Simple. Purity dictated what one reaped by cultivating and tempering one’s [Meridians].

[Primordial Qi] was as its sire. A thing of immutable purity that when conjured, by way of its regality and origin, negated all lesser workings. To temper oneself, as they had in part, was to ascend beyond the mere limitations and predications of [Realm].

With the inclusion of [Divine Qi]... Fu mused best that it was the Heaven’s own force of creation. Manifestation did not diminish it as with the transient nature of base elements- of wind, fire, earth or any other- to conjure a fog from [Spectral Qi] would see it fade in time, to conjure a fog of [Divine Qi] would have it linger eternal.

As for its properties when tempered…

Is it not beyond belief?