Chapter 76
The entirety of my next few days and nights have been spent in meditation, merging energy with my body as quickly as possible to stabilize the imbalance between the great amount of stored potential in my body and the environment around me.
I’m finally making a breakthrough and it’s actually quite excruciating, my cells constantly remaking themselves, not stopping when the breakthrough should be finished.
It’s at the moment I feel a second breakthrough starting that I have what I’m certain is a genius idea. If I merge the Dragon Armor talent I learned with myself during breakthrough, it should be always active, right? No need to spend energy to turn it on, just always there.
Oh Goddess, maybe this was a bad idea. This hurts way worse than just adapting my body. I can’t feel my legs, but I can see them working, that’s a good sign. It’s working though, I can sense the ability within the newly upgraded cells.
Was I meant to be doing this all along? Merging with abilities to gain strength? No that can’t be right, the other disciples here still learn them like physical skills. Elder Song will be over the moon if this works though. He’ll have a whole new study topic.
Focusing on other things isn’t working anymore, this pain is horrendous. But if I pass out, what happens? All that hard work fades away? No, that’s unacceptable.
Finally the breakthrough is finishing and sealing the armor skill into my very cells. The pain has faded and now I can feel the huge amount of power within me. Two breakthroughs at once is amazing.
I seem to have mostly adapted to this world now, my strength is still growing rapidly, but not at such an extreme rate. In another week or two I’ll likely break through again. I wonder how long I’ll be stuck here before they let me out on a mission and I can escape long enough to go home?
I’m glad the time flows so differently here. By the time anyone misses me at home I’ll have been here half a year or more. The Red Priestesses said it’s a hundred days here to one on Earth.
The third breakthrough is closer than I’d initially thought. It won’t be today, but maybe tomorrow. With Qi this dense in the air how does anyone struggle to cultivate?
At first the distinction between mana and natural Qi confused me, but I’ve decided they’re basically different brands of the same thing. They feel different, but at least in my case, they’re both used by the body in the same way.