Chapter 232: Make it!
Blergh!
As soon as Lee attempted to move the wind particles, he involuntary convulsed and spewed out a mouthful of blood. And then another one.
This wasn’t what he went through after regaining consciousness when Arax fed him the earth spark. Back then he only coughed up the blobs of impurities that had accumulated while he was unconscious.
Now he was actually internally bleeding. And externally as well. Blood was seeping through most of the tiny cuts across and for a split moment Lee felt as if he was a sieve.
Fortunately, he didn’t bleed out. Lee forced himself to calm down and performed a simple breathing exercise, designed to normalize the flow of elemental energies, and that stopped the bleeding pretty quickly.
One didn’t have to be a genius to realize that the damage was caused by the wind element that tore him apart from the inside. Either there was a trick to using it, or a technique, but it was clear that before attempting anything Lee had to recover first.
During the next couple of days Lee continued to meditate, and, while the wind within occasionally got out of control, and he was forced to cough up blood every time, the outer wounds were quickly healed. He couldn’t use any element, though. The moment he tried, he go hit by a storm from the inside that resulted in spewing blood.
Lee’s best guess was that after swallowing the other sparks, while he was unconscious or tormented by the agonizing pain, it took months for his body to get accustomed to them. Or maybe it was the other way around – the new guests had to properly settle down. Either way he decided to not actively use elemental energies for now.
The little workshop was a bloody mess and to get it in order actually took a longer time than for him to recover.