Chapter 109: Revisiting Old Places
Tassera left, she needed to go back and retreat into solitude to study and digest the abundant gains from her journey to Crossroads City.
Despite being a teenage dragon, it will be decades before she matures into a young dragon. This period is even longer than the time it took for her to grow from hatching to her current stage. An impulsive response is understandable but limited to impulsiveness. Leon quickly calmed down and even dared to claim that women would only hinder the speed of his sword drawing.
If it weren’t for the necessity of a partner in the practice of the Inner Core Dual Cultivation Method, Leon would dare to belittle Tassera... Well, if there were such a beautiful Blue Dragon, especially a Storage Dragon offering herself willingly, he would have no reason to refuse; one should not deceive oneself.
Anyway, Leon returned to the Molten Lava Lake, submerged in the molten lava, preparing to continue his cultivation, striving to complete his Foundation Establishment soon so he could do as he pleased.
It must be mentioned, the cultivation difficulty of the Inner Core Dual Cultivation Method and the Breathing and Exhaling Skill is comparable, yet their methods are fundamentally different.
The Breathing and Exhaling Skill merely requires constant absorption of nature’s spiritual energy, and at the beginning of each month, drawing in the Sun and Moon Essence, primarily challenging one’s perseverance. On the other hand, even if one masters the techniques of the Inner Core Dual Cultivation Method, failing to enter the right state nullifies the effort.
To enter this state, one must banish all worldly distractions and maintain the purity of one’s six senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, body, and mind, ignoring sights, sounds, and thoughts. All should let the Primordial Spirit decline and consciousness take control.
Leon could never achieve such a state, except perhaps when extremely tired and unable to move, or soaking comfortably in the Lava Lake and similar special circumstances; he even finds it hard to sit quietly for ten minutes.
In fact, it was easier now. Before crossing over, he could not even walk without looking at his phone, luckily never running into a pole, and except when absolutely exhausted and needing to sleep, his mind was never quiet, always lost in wild thoughts.
After being transformed into a Red Dragon in this world, with no phones to entertain and even finding an interesting book to read wasn’t easy, yet there was still never a quiet moment. When utterly bored, he would simply sleep until he woke naturally, eat something, and then sleep some more.
Leon loved how as a dragon, he could sleep however much he wanted, sleeping up to twenty hours a day without issue, and additionally, sleeping encouraged his growth, indeed an excellent way to pass the time.