novelraw Chapter 1597 - 1596 - Slip Out
Chapter 1597 - 1596 - Slip Out
Lind, Karu, and Misham appeared in his rooms but as soon as the tear closed, he became shaky. His Authority had not drained him much but his little show of power was an entirely different matter!
Healing Misham was easy, but destroying the chains and tearing through space nearly wiped him out! He felt like he was back to being a Soul Realm with such limited ability or he would imbalance his foundation!
He had acted instinctively but unlike in the Celestial Fields where tearing through space was only limited by his Tier to distance, the Divine Lands was like trying to part mud with a sieve!
Theoretically possible but extremely difficult!
"True Lord, thank you for your intervention but while Kang and his son are now exposed, the other families will just abandon them and try again. I think you need to get out of the cove if you have all you need." The large man, Misham, was bowing respectfully but Lind waved him off as he began to cultivate.
"I need some time to recover. It is frustrating how little effort it takes to exhaust me." Misham's large eyes widened but Karu seemed to understand.
"Ascenders need to build up quantity as well as quality. You have Divine Qi but your dantian and body still retain much that has to be converted to increase your capacity. Simply cultivating your Mysteries is but one step." Lind stared at her before he frowned.
"HARO!" The bald man appeared in his tan robes kneeling.
"Forgive me, Master, but your original situation was not conducive to resolving that issue. It is only now on the mainland that you can focus on it." Lind paused and looked at Karu who nodded.
"The surface of the Void Ocean is sparse for Qi. Even when the kraken is at the final stages, only a liver of the power is gathered by the natural array of the cradle." Lind recalled the imbalance when he was outside the mountain cavern vs inside it.
Even in the cavern, the most he could do was indeed slightly improve his foundation and now he understood why.
"Exactly what do I need to do?" Karu looked at Haro but it was Misham that answered.
"Fight." Lind looked at the giant man as he grinned at him. "You naturally consume the remnant Immortal Qi inside you as you expend yourself as you just did. Fighting is the best recourse or intense activity that drains your dantian entirely but your body needs to be exhausted too."
Lind sighed. While he would absolutely fight if he had to, he suspected the transformation needed far more than he wanted to deal with.
He closed his eyes and tuned his senses inward.
He found his dantian shimmering with the white and black layers while he felt only Divine Qi at first, he did finally perceive a trace of Immortal Qi clinging inside. He saw it cause slight disruptions and it was worse in his body.
Every cell retained some Immortal Qi. Why hadn't the tribulation removed or converted them? He was about to question the whole process when a flash came back.
Every realm, no matter which, was about absorption and conversion. The major difference was the scale.
Immortals had to incorporate Laws on top of absorbing Immortal Qi. He had refined an entirely new body and not paid attention.
It seemed he had been trying to sprint ahead but his bottleneck was about more than Samsara but the lingering Immortal Qi in his body and dantian.
It mystified him that he could condense 2 layers if that was the case but then he realized the likely cause was the damage and healing he had to do when the invaders came. Limited as it was, it purged some Immortal Qi with his healing process.
Healing the kraken king also likely was the reason his dantian had far less Immortal Qi than his body.
He wished he had known as he could have at least purged his dantian with harmonic Qi experiments!
He froze as he looked at his harmony at the heart of his dantian. The emerald light was like a sun in intensity but there was not a trace of Immortal Qi anywhere!
Its quality of Divine Qi was also far higher than ambient Qi he felt in the world. Understanding flooded him.
Ascenders were exceptional members of their worlds. If they succeeded, the quality of their efforts bore fruit in quality Qi as well. The only way to hinder them was to make them purge the Immortal Qi woven into their existence.
He suspected Immortals were far more powerful in the Divine Lands compared to their counterparts but descending required a Divine Realm to make the bridge.
The back and forth balancing act made Lind think there had to be a better way but the Divine Lands made Immortals like cabbages. So their ascension to the Divine Realm, while rare, had a given result.
It meant ascenders, once purged of Immortal Qi of their native world, were more powerful strictly speaking in terms of Divine Qi quality and capacity.
His eyes suddenly glowed and the arrays of the room lit up like a sun! His dantian surged with power as emerald light flared. His body partially transformed until the pressure seemed on the verge of breaching a threshold.
A faint image of a dragon appeared around him as his dantian and meridians were fully purged of Immortal Qi. A weight lifted from his shoulders as Divine Qi roared into his body!
The 3 figures around him had varying reactions. Haro simply shook his head. Misham has his jaw open so wide his tusks nearly didn't drop low enough. Karu, however, was terrified.
Her reaction was not missed by Haro or Lind but neither said anything as his recovery sped up by a factor of 3.
It was so much easier to move the Qi now! Daos also felt easier to grasp!
He now understood what they meant. He had not noticed that after each recovery or test that things got easier because it was haphazard. Sometimes he would purge a lot but other times it was incidental.
Unless he did it intentionally, it was simply not going to happen soon!
His body, however, did not show a single drop from before. It seemed Misham was right. He would need to strain his body to purge it of Immortal Qi. Annoying.
He came out of his cultivation and looked at Karu. Her gold and burnt orange eyes looked at him in fear. It was not fake nor acting at all. She was genuinely afraid of what he had just done.
"Misham, how do I get out of the city without being stopped or fighting my way out?" He never looked away from her but his question did snap Misham out of his shock.
"There are several, actually but only 1 I can still use. If this is the old Seward's place as I think it is, we are not too far from the entrance." The trio left and shocked the innkeeper's family with Misham.
Tau hugged him as he patted her head. The closeness of the family to him was clear. It seemed Misham had been a very good City Lord.
They left and the commotion at the heart of the city left things very clear on the streets. Lind barely remembered walking down them but the clean cobblestones were well laid and without any sign of neglect.
Drains were everywhere as well as channels to let water run off into the cove.
It was well planned for serious storms. It also was clear the buildings were made of both resilient materials with formations to further reinforce them.
"The storm season is thankfully a few months away or this would not work." A sudden premonition came from Misham's words.
The man turned down an alley between what smelled of leather working and a blacksmith shop. A very bad premonition came to him as a round metal cover was easily pulled up by Misham.
Karu instantly paled and he could have sworn he heard her mumble something about not again.
What kind of prophetess gave away so many clues?!
He sighed as an unfortunate stench came from the opening. Misham just smiled as he contorted his body to slide inside. Karu sighed as she followed and Lind picked up the metal circle to close the path behind them.
It was a sewer. There was just no way around it. Waste from the shops as well as the residents combined to make a very potent smell that he doubted he would ever forget.
Misham seemed far too resistant to not having used the sewers before. Karu was green but endured. Lind just sighed. He felt a flash of old memories from his time in the Law Binding as well as sneaking around the Barren Realm.
They walked through things best left to never ever think about before taking a few turns and then Misham came to a dead end. There was a ladder leading up with sunlight barely coming through.
"Ah, here it is!" Misham jumped and popped out with Karu swiftly following after. Lind lingered as he felt like he was truly starting out. His arrival to the mainland was loud, annoying, and most of all, gave his enemy leads.
It was past time to make progress but he had to work on everything from the ground up it seemed. Just when things looked to improve, more obstacles were put in his way. He sighed and ascended into the area just outside the walls.
Smart, it left a way out not only for people in times of need but flooding outside the walls could be drained with areas directly under the wall for guarding it.
Misham had activated an array that sealed the opening once more. The trio struck out on the road before any guard could see them. It was a long road ahead.