Chapter 31 - Uh? Greatest prodigy? Is that food? (2/2)

The result was... nothing.

Yes, nothing.

Will produced a True Strike, but there were no effects visible to the naked eye! Even Will himself was somewhat stunned. After the attempt, a prompt rang out and words appeared in front of him.

Quest: Complete ten thousand true Strikes completed.

Will already knew that the system would not reward him, but he didn't care. He knew that the results of his labor were rewarding enough.

Multiple feelings and multiple thoughts were raging throughout Will's mind. He didn't know how or why, but he felt that his next actions would be very crucial in regards to his future cultivation. Will closed his eyes and looked deep within him. Once he found out what he was seeking, Will created multiple water blades. With but a thought on his part, they struck the roof of the cave, leading to large rocks dropping into his river, increasing the overall water level.

Afterward, he walked straight into the circular river and allowed himself to fall inside...

A week or so later, Adelda was standing in Will's cave, observing the latter's body float on the surface like a corpse. Will had been like this for the past week. From time to time, his body would meet a protruding rock, bump into it, and eventually move past it.

It was as if Will had become a stick of wood in a stream. Adelda knew that there was more than met the eye to what Will was doing because the speed at which his body was moving was very fast due to the raging waters.

Will had virtually no qi in his body and had completely let down all his defenses. His clothes had been torn all over and he was covered in bruises from colliding with the protruding rocks. Yet, after a while, this had changed: Will would still hit the rocks at the same speed and in the same manner, but somehow he would just slither past like he had not been damaged whatsoever.

There was no protective membrane on his skin, yet as time went on, fewer and fewer bruises formed, till eventually, none were forming at all!

It would be more accurate to call him a leaf in a river instead of a stick, because a stick is stiff, yet Will's body was conforming perfectly, balancing out forces from the impact points and redistributing them evenly across his body.

Adelda marveled at the sight of Will's odd behavior, as she was no stranger to this behavior. This was called a First Opening, when one opened their first door, which would be the moment when their connection to nature is at its strongest, and when there was a high possibility of gaining an insight into the Dao.

When Will had opened his seventh door, Adelda was curious as to what he would do when his insight came. When the First Opening occurred, it did not guarantee a full insight into the Dao, usually, it would manifest as an improvement in one's technique or an ability, but Adelda had no doubt that with Will's monstrous perception, he would pull a rabbit out of a hat, shocking everyone... and that, Will, did.

'This...this is without doubt water intent!'

The longer a First Opening occurred, the more powerful the results. The greatest prodigy Adelda knew of had a First Opening that lasted for half a day, and that news was enough to cause shockwaves across all of the planets within the system.

Yet here she was, gazing at a young man who had shattered her notion of what a mortal was capable of, all by just taking a dip in some water...

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