Chapter 10 - Limit Reached (2/2)

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A few days later Krune had stocked twenty 7th stage demon cores, although he thought he already had enough cores to create the fourth Spiritual Energy Meridian, he wanted to be safe.

There was also another issue, he noticed that once a demon beast dies and it's core is taken away, the spiritual energy inside of those cores will start to slowly but surely dissipate.

Well, that was to be expected, demon cores have no life, so there is not one to control the energy inside to start with, Krune could feel that his oldest demon core had already lost almost half of the spiritual energy and it keeps dropping down, because of this, in the future Krune won't be able to simply take a lot of low level cores to make up for the quality, the initial idea was to get a lot of the easy to get demon cores even if it took longer so that he could keep himself safe.

But now it's obvious that such idea won't be usable anymore, he will have hunt higher level beasts if he wants to get enough spiritual energy to help with his Meridian Creation.

'There is no helping in that, let's just start making the forth meridian before their energy is gone'

But for Krunes surprise, as soon as he started the creation of the forth meridian, his soul was struck by an unbearable pain, Krune almost fainted right there, he immediately stopped the process and the forth meridian creation obviously failed as soon as it started, Krune was alarmed!

'What was that, I felt like my energy core was about to explode, if I had not stopped in time, my own energy core would have broken apart, I almost died right here and now!'

Krune calmed himself, he started to think what could have gone wrong.

'The Energy Meridians are directly linked to my own energy core, when I cultivate they convert the energy of the heaven and earth at extremely high speeds and deliver it into my core straight away, I'm already almost sure that the reason that their individual efficiency goes down when used together is because my energy core can't take so much spiritual energy at the same time.'

'Could it be that my energy core can't sustain more than three Spiritual Energy Meridians? Three Energy Meridian is my limit with a core at the Qi Condensation stage, if I want to create more meridians, I will have to achieve the Foundation Establishment realm or find a way to strengthen it before that.'

Krune immediately threw the second idea away, strengthen the core so that it can hold more Spiritual Energy Meridians? How the hell will he do that? Maybe after he leaves the forest and ventures the outer world he might find some art or technique that allows one to do it, but at moment such thing is impossible. Since that's the case he only has one path ahead.

'Time to aim for the Foundation Establishment, but before that I will need to consolidate my cultivation at the 8th and 9th stage of Qi Condensation first.'

Krune had long since noticed that after he breakthrough a stage, his cultivation becomes unbalanced for quite some time, in the first stages of the Qi Condensation it wasn't so obvious, but after reaching the 7th stage it started to affect his progression speed. Simply put, his foundations were getting shaky, but it wasn't a problem, he also found out the best way to stabilize it, there was no better way than through battle, that's why he is already at the peak of the 7th stage and can directly try to enter the 8th stage.

But now Krune is facing another issue.

'Since I won't be able to create the forth meridian any time soon, all these 7th stage demon cores don't have much use for me, they would be very good if I didn't have the spirit vein since their energy is much higher than what I can get outside, but because of the spiritual vein and the limitation of how much energy I can absorb at the same time, the spiritual vein is already more than enough for me to absorb spiritual energy at the max rate possible, but if I don't use them, their energy will simply disappear sooner or later.'

While holding the demon cores in front of him with his spiritual energy, Krune noticed the Lizard Dragons at distance, their were all looking straight at him, their eyes shining with yearning, Krune had ordered them that they must not eat his demon cores, there was once when the oldest Lizard Dragon tried to sneakily get one of his cores, but how could Krune not notice him? As a wisp, even without his Divine Sense he can still feel the energy around him, it was way too easy to noticed this fella trying to pull one on him.

After getting a through beating from Krune for his naughtiness, let alone this guy, even the younger ones didn't dare to approach his demon cores anymore, the sorry state of their Big Brother was a more than good enough example of the outcome of such foolish act.

Krune pondered for a bit but still gave up in the end, what is he going to do with empty demon cores? They are nothing more than decoration after all the spiritual energy is gone. He has a total of twenty core and five Lizard Dragons, so he might as well give 4 for each one of them.

'Come here, I will give you this ones.'

The Lizards immediately rushed over, each getting 4 cores, the happiness on all their faces made he feel a little better. Well, all of them except for one big guy, when Krune looked at the oldest lizard, he could see it's gloomy face while he looked back at Krune. Turns out that Krune had given him the demon cores with the lowest amount of spiritual energy inside, with it's 6th stage cultivation level, it could totally feel that his brother and sisters cores had much more spiritual energy than his ones. Krune smirked at him.

”Haha, 'THAT' is what you get for trying to steal my demon cores before. Do you think I forgot about that? No way! Furthermore, 'YOU' were the one who ate my 8th stage demon core, do you think I don't know? How could your cultivation be so much higher than your siblings if you hadn't got the greatest reward? Be happy that I didn't give your cores to them, otherwise I don't mind not giving you anything anymore. Hmph!'

The oldest Lizard Dragon didn't quite understand what Krune said but it still could understand that it wouldn't get anything more out of him, it looked like it was going to cry while taking its four demon cores away.

Here, in the inner parts of the Katiu Forest, there is an adult wisp feeling great for being able to verbally bully a 6th stage Lizard Dragon who couldn't understand a single word that he said.

Krune felt very proud of himself. Yeap! He isn't petty, he isn't petty at all!