Chapter 65: Invisible Thread (1/2)

Chapter 65: Invisible Thread

Translator: YHEditor: Pranav

When Ai Hui roused from his deep rumination, the sky had already turned dark. Lou Lan was nowhere to be seen.

While the [Twin Weaving Technique] was honestly out of his league, Ai Hui was not discouraged; he was already used to facing all kinds of challenges.

He began his attempt.

The first step was to try to conjure two elemental energy needles. This was the most fundamental aspect of the technique, without which the cloth couldn’t even be woven.

He had just learned how to integrate the element force needle in the morning, and the process wasn’t exactly easy. An attempt at integrating two elemental energy needles at the same time was going to be difficult.

Ai Hui was, however, surprised that despite several issues, the attempt went relatively smoothly.

Ai Hui smiled, feeling pleased, as he gazed upon the needles on his right and left-hand fingers.

His left and right hands were very balanced, something he had discovered in the Wilderness. He was capable of wielding swords in either hand without much difficulty and was pleased to find out that such benefits extended to the use of elemental energy as well.

After the elemental energy at his fingertips stabilized, Ai Hui proceeded with his attempt at detaching the needles from his fingers.

He had learned the theory during his teacher’s fundamental lessons on training. Teacher Wang’s explanation hadn’t been very detailed, so Ai Hui had to fumble with the method by himself.

Ai Hui continuously adjusted his breathing. His natal residence was in his lungs and had a direct relationship with his breathing. The human body was truly wondrous, the five residences were very different from one another.

Ai Hui’s lungs expanded and contracted to the rhythm of his breathing. When he inhaled, his lungs suffused with a faint silver tint and exerted a pulling force that absorbed the metal elemental energy from the air. The residual air was then expelled through his nose.

Being able to cultivate elemental energy through the mere act of breathing was one of the advantages of opening the natal residence. Even though the elemental energy present in the air was very sparse, the accumulative effect of such absorption was nothing to scoff at in the long run.

Furthermore, every breath taken excited the metal elemental energy within his body, causing fluctuations that shifted with every adjustment to his breathing.

Being able to look into Ai Hui’s body would reveal two extremely thin silver threads branching out of his silver-tinted lungs, with one entering his right hand and the other his left. These were formed from elemental energy.

Ai Hui’s hand palaces had not been activated, which meant that the path from his natal residence to his palms hadn’t been opened yet. According to the conventions of the Cultivation Era, these paths were known as elemental “veins.”

Ai Hui’s elemental energy was currently circulating via the back of his muscles. If the elemental veins were thought of as a wide torrential river, then the path through the muscles was like a small, convoluted stream in the middle of a forest. Not only was it unable to accommodate large amounts of elemental energy, but the muscles were also much less efficient in circulating elemental energy.

Ai Hui’s situation was slightly better.

Opening his natal residence only after having developed his elemental energy to its fullest state had helped drench his muscles in elemental energy, greatly reducing the pathway’s resistance to elemental energy.

The elemental energy condensed into needles at Ai Hui’s fingertips, connecting to the thin silver threads of elemental energy within his body. Ai Hui was able to control the elemental energy needles because the other end of the silver threads were connected to his lungs.

Ai Hui tried to move the needles forward.

Under his watchful gaze, the elemental energy needles at his fingertips grew slightly longer.

No! This was not elemental energy detachment.