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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 277

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:28:26 AM


Chapter 277: Blue Icesilver

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Chapter 277: Blue Icesilver

After his death, Sage had rebuilt his cultivation from the ground up. At that time, the Seed of Life and the other Heavenly Materials took over. With him practicing the method the Seed of Life taught him, his body was made into fertile ground for the Seed of Life. The collection of Heavenly Materials hed collected had entered into a sort of loop, feeding and nurturing others. At the time, Tao Ba had even restricted him from practicing normal cultivation. It had created a restriction for him during Ebb and Flow training, in the evening when he unsealed his Qi Pores he had to be careful not to alter or strengthen the flow of the Life Nebula technique. He merely opened himself to the world and let his starving body drink in as much Qi as it liked. Other practitioners would use that time to fiercely circulate their Qi Cultivation Technique, the massive influx of energy would be their best opportunity to strain at their bottlenecks and increase their cultivation. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Instead, the Heavenly Materials in Sages Dantian were in a sort of feedback loop and the energy they naturally emitted was already at the maximum rate that his body could handle. Somehow they created a sort of equilibrium between transforming his body and also preventing it from being harmed. So, in order to increase the speed at which he cultivates the only option he had was to gain more Heavenly Materials. More importantly, he had to maintain a balance between those objects.

Sage wasnt sure whether or not the elemental system of the East or West were more correct, but at the moment he wasnt matching either one. Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. The Western system, and one that he didnt quite follow, considering the Seed of Life was Wood related. On the other hand, for the Eastern System: Wood, Earth, Metal, Fire, and Water; he was missing Metal. Given the world around him, he was more partial to the Eastern System being more correct here, and so he hypothesized that adding a Heavenly Metal would be a good balancing factor for the other Heavenly Materials inside his Dantian. It had only ever been a guess, and hed never thought hed actually be able to find a Heavenly Metal. They were too highly coveted for him to expect to encounter one.

Hed already been approaching the peak of rank 4, especially with Ebb and Flow training. While he wasnt allowed to directly work on improving his cultivation, the intense training of his Qi Pores, Meridians, and physical body created a stronger foundation. In order to handle a greater amount of Qi it was necessary to have a strong body. Each stage and rank that were gained would cleanse and purify the body, creating a stronger vessel. Depending on the cultivation method or the cultivators aptitude, the amount of cleaning and transformation their bodies underwent was different. In time, the changes wouldnt be able to keep up with the new demands on the body and so it was common for cultivators to try to strengthen their body to help them break through bottlenecks in their advancement.

Here it comes!

It touched his skin. Nothing else happened. It just sat there in his palm doing nothing. Sage was a little confused, but not worried. Perhaps it took a little more to activate it? He sent out a sliver of his Qi and the Blue Icesilver reacted instantly. Of course, the knowledge that Tao Ba had passed him about Heavenly Materials covered such a thing, and he knew the pattern he had to use to activate it. He had just been imagining there would be a reaction with the Seed of Life as soon as he touched it. Instead, it activated exactly as the book had told him. Once he sent his Qi in using a specific pulsing rhythm, the Blue Icesilver came to life. It started to melt, but in a way that ignored gravity. It didnt drip down, instead just liquifying in place. Transforming from a roughly spherical cube into a flowing liquid sphere.

Just when he was starting to admire the ball of blue mercury, the other Heavenly Materials in his Dantian started to act up. There was immediately a sort of vibrating resonance between them and the Blue Icesilver. Sage didnt feel like reliving them bursting into his body forcibly again so he hurriedly followed the advice from the book and swallowed down the ball of liquid metal. It felt like a very heavy pudding, or a sort of jello milkshake combination. Something so thick that if he werent such a strong cultivator it would have choked him to death. As it was, he slowly swallowed it down, glad that his training of Divine Breath had strengthened his lungs and throat.

The Blue Icesilver required its prospective wielder to have real guts. To attempt to refine it, they had to swallow it down into their stomach. While it didnt seem like much mass, the problem was that as soon as it entered the body it spread out and stretched into the same other space where the meridians and Qi system lived. It started to feed on Sages Qi and with that it gained mass. It grew larger and larger, starting to bloat out his stomach. He was now on a timer. He had to refine it before it grew large enough to drown him or explode his stomach from the inside.




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