Chapter 714: A Tough Spot For Lin Wu
“I can’t let him do whatever he is doing!” The Supreme elder understood.
Within Lin Wu’s Dantian, a massive change was happening.
The ocean of spirit Qi there churned and toiled as the massive infusion of spirit Qi started to pour in. Above this stormy ocean of spirit Qi floated the two Dao Shells and on them sat the two Nascent souls of Lin Wu.
Right now, both of them had their eyes closed and were calmly sitting in a meditative pose. But when the spirit Qi finally started to pour into the Dao Shell of Crimson Eyed Emerald Worm Bloodline, both the Nascent souls moved.
The dark Nascent soul which belonged to the unknown bloodline trembled slightly, and his hands twitched. A frown appeared on his face but he didn’t open his eyes and continued to sit as it is.
The other nascent soul though, had a slight smile on his face but continued to keep his eyes closed.
The Dao Shell below him steadily absorbed the spirit Qi pouring into the Dantian. The mostly illusory form of the Dao Shell started to become more and more corporeal.
Till now, only about five percent of the Dao Shell was actually solid. And on this solid part at the top sat the Nascent soul. The rest of the part was illusory and looked translucent. But now the spirit Qi was rapidly filling in and turning it solid as well.
~BOOM~
But then something happened that shook the Dantian.
“GAH!” Lin Wu let out a pain filled grunt.
His body was knocked back and almost fell, but was stopped by his tail that embedded into the ground.
He had just been struck by a very strong blow of the Supreme elder. Unknowingly, when trying to upgrade his actions had been slowed down and even mobilizing his own spirit Qi was slow.
“Fuck! This hasn’t happened before!” Lin Wu said in surprise.
~SLASH~
The Supreme elder slashed again and again, sending out arcs of ice elemental spirit Qi towards Lin Wu. The moved like swords through the air and tore apart Lin Wu’s defenses before striking his body.
~Crack~ Crack~
For the first time since the start of the fight, cracks appeared on the surface of Lin Wu’s body.
“So you can be damaged.” The Supreme elder taunted.
He was sure that his attacks were dealing damage, but nothing was appearing on Lin Wu’s body, making him confused about it all.
‘The amount of damage I’ve dealt to him directly would be enough to shatter even the sect’s defensive arrays. Whatever that beast is, it certainly has a way to resist this or hide the damage.’ The Supreme elder reckoned.
And just as he was observing Lin Wu, he saw something that made him furrow his brows.
“So you can heal too…” the Supreme elder muttered, seeing the cracks disappearing just as quickly as they had appeared.
“Fuck you!” Lin Wu cursed as he stabbed out with his tail.
A few new warning windows had popped up that had alarmed Lin Wu.
~WARNING~
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ANOMALY: DETECTED
NOTIFICATION: Foreign Spirit Qi has blocked the host’s meridians in several points, the cost using skills and techniques will be doubled.
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This was not something Lin Wu had expected to happen. Even with just ten percent of his meridians having blocks, the cost of using skills had been directly doubled.
“Why the heck is this happening now system?” Lin Wu asked, feeling angry.
~DING~
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ANSWER: The blocks in the host’s meridians slow down the circulation of spirit Qi as well as the use of skills, as they interrupt the normal spirit Qi circuits used during the activation of skills.
In order to not let the host suffer from backlash and skill interruption, twice the amount of spirit Qi is being used to compensate for the block.
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Seeing the system’s answer, Lin Wu gritted his teeth.
~DING~
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DAO SHELL PROGRESS: 12% formed
ESTIMATED TIME OF COMPLETION: 880 seconds
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He looked at the progress of his Dao Shell and saw that even that had slowed down. Before, it was forming at a rate of one percent per second, but now, it was taking ten seconds to fill just one percent.
This was not a good sign for Lin Wu as he didn’t know if he would be to hold on longer against the supreme elder like this.
The formation of the Dao Shell was a vastly different process than any other stages he had gone through till now and it was not something Lin Wu or the system could just speed through.
Even what he was doing right now was against the norms of cultivation. He was doing what people took hundreds, if not thousands, of years to do. Even if someone theoretically had enough spirit stones and other resources to rush their way to the Shell Completion stage of the Dao Shell realm, it would still take them several years to do so.
After all, it wasn’t just absorbing and filling spirit Qi to form the Dao Shell; it was also stabilizing it and making sure that the body could adapt to it. There was no lack of examples of people who made mistakes during cultivation and ended up breaking their Dao Shell apart.
In the best case, it would cripple their cultivation base, regressing them back to the Nascent soul realm and, in worst cases, it would simply kill them.
Even with the system handling all the errors, there was a limit to what it could achieve in such a short time. And it didn’t help that there was the foreign ice elemental spirit of Qi slowing him down as well.
‘Fuck, the more I fight with him, the more ice elemental spirit Qi will enter my body. This will then slow down the process more. I can’t let that happen, I need to buy time somehow,’ Lin Wu thought to himself.
His mind quickly moved to find a solution and he soon found one. He was, after all, not alone here at the Frozen Cloud sect.
He contacted a couple of his companions and informed them about what he was doing.
