Book 4: Chapter 31
I started by building Jei Su Long a prison cell made out of rocks. Busted down to mortal or not, I didn’t want him roaming around free. Shoving him in a corner of the main cavern, I formed the cell around him, leaving enough gaps in the heavy boulders to see what he was doing but with no way for him to squeeze out. He cursed and threatened us the whole time but after a while he eventually got tired and shut the hell up.
I gathered everyone then and set out the training regime we would follow for the next two weeks. My main goal was to increase my Frenzy density and master the [Sacred Soul Shield] technique to make it as potent and efficient as possible. But even with it, my test with Blue Rose had confirmed that their spiritual fortitude would need strengthening just to endure the environment alone.
“What about him?” Wu Liang asked, jerking a thumb towards Jei Su Long’s stone cage. “Won’t he go mad as well and even more so now without a core?”
“We can blindfold him,” Blue Rose said. “Block his ears too. You can’t unhear some of those things either.”
Song De frowned. “Perhaps I should opt for the same. I was never comfortable with seeing those unnerving things.”
“I might join in that,” Wing Pho said with a chuckle.
“Hey, we can’t all be blind out there,” I said. “But I hear you. We can only push as far as your mind will allow. I don’t need you all coming back with no memories.”
“How will we do this?” Wing Pho said. “We don’t have a barrier for protection like we did back at Du Gok Bhong to go in and out of for safety.”
“You and I will be the barrier,” I said. “We expose ourselves to the Bloodmoon each night, starting at midnight when the moon is at its peak. We endure till dawn. I’ll start my own spiritual cultivation then, doing the same but only under the effects of the Cursed Star.”