Chapter 99: Unique Core?
Shirong could not help but let out a pain filled grunt. He felt scared at this as he had sealed his senses and yet this was able to pass through them. The pain in his abdomen seemed to be coming from a foreign source that Shirong felt was a bit familiar.
He wanted to resist, but as soon as he tried that, his hold over the rampaging energy weakened as well.
~Cough~
Shirong inadvertently coughed out blood as the energy rocked his core again. He was able to hold on with great difficulty and could not even use a healing pill. He felt that losing even a moment’s focus could spell doom for him.
He was helpless and could only let the foreign source enter his body. But in a surprise to him, the foreign source looked like a spirit qi construct. The construct entered his dantian but did not harm him, rather it started covering the entirety of his dantian.
Now it was as if a shell had been created in Shirong dantian. This shell contained his core and was present in a different layer of his dantian. The shell that was formed released needle like spikes from it that suddenly stabbed into his core.
“GAH!” Another painful cry escaped his mouth.
But the pain was momentary: as soon after the needles had stabbed into his dantian, he felt as if the rampaging energy in his core was getting restrained. He kept on watching curiously and saw that it started stabilizing.
He could then feel as if channels were being carved into his core and within them, the rampaging energy was being directed. Little by little it entered the channels, but what Shirong did not notice was that its quantity was decreasing.
By the time all of the ramping energy had entered his core, it had unknowingly reduced by half. The channel was a new thing that Shirong had never heard of before. He knew that certain cultivators could form unique cores that had different properties.
This could be a result of their cultivation techniques or their unique physiques. Shirong had not expected that he would one day have a unique core as well. But there was still the question of whether this would be beneficial for him or not.
After more time, the shell that had formed over his core started shrinking and merging with his core. The channels that were once present on the surface of the core were now hidden beneath the shell. Once this was done, he suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.
All the rampaging energy had disappeared and he felt his control over his core return. Shirong wanted to immediately check the changes with his core, but then restrained himself with great difficulty.
‘I need to first verify what it actually is…’ Shirong thought.
Shirong unsealed his sense and opened his eyes. His complexion was a bit pale, but overall he seemed to be well. After seeing that he had been moved from the previous location he was a bit surprised but then realized that it must have been the clan heads that must have done it.
“Looks like they moved the very ground I was sitting on, smart.” Shirong stated seeing the tile that he was still sitting on.
He stood up and pushed the stone tile from beneath him to the side. He then went and got a supportive meditation mat from the inside. This kind of a meditative mat was a low grade spirit tool and could help enhance the sense of the cultivator that used it.
Shirong sat down on the mat in a meditative pose and closed his eyes, ready to check his core again. His spirit sense entered his dantian and observed his core. There were lines going all around his core in a complex pattern. These lines were the channels that were formed.
These lines would glow from time to time and he could see the energy which was previously rampaging in his core. The energy had changed its form a little bit and was now pale blue colored. There was a thin transparent shell that coated his core and made it look like an exquisite gem.
“Marvelous…” Shirong couldn’t help but utter, seeing his core.
Now came the time for the big test, Shirong started using his cultivation technique and refined some spirit qi. He was quite nervous as he did not have any idea of what would happen after this. But his worries were soon dissipated as he saw his core working the same as before.
It was able to freely absorb his spirit qi, and his cultivation technique was working as well.
“Now to test the limits…” Shirong muttered.
This was another big thing that he thought he needed to do. He focused on his core and tried to influence the pale blue energy that was coursing through the channels. But as soon as he did, he felt as if he was being stabbed by a burning blade again.
He didn’t flinch through and continued trying to influence it. But after he went past a certain limit, the pale blue energy seemed to have become disturbed and leaked into his core.
~Cough~
Shirong spat out another mouthful of blood as the pale blue energy returned to its rampaging form. He immediately stopped doing what he was doing and saw a new phenomenon happening. The thin shell that covered his core glowed a bit, and the rampaging energy was being drawn back to the channels on his core.
A few minutes later, his core stabilized again and the energy returned to being pale blue. It calmly circulated in the channels. But this time Shirong sensed something else.
The moment that the shell had activated, he had felt the connection between him and the green crystal spear activate for a moment. It was then that it struck him.
“The spear! It… it solved the problem and tamed the energy.”
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Meanwhile, Lin Wu was happily watching everything.
~Ding~
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PROCESS COMPLETED: Back door function created.
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“Now you shall be my puppet… MUAHAHHAHA!”
