63 Viscount Sanzu (1/2)
The mini replica of Hartley resembled a blue diamond shining and gleaming brightly among the greenery of the forested area, giving a blue hue to the nearest trees surrounding him. The Blue star sitting high in the sky shone down over the land mass as it overlooked Hartley's inner world like a deity.
The desolate outer areas began growing small patches of emerald green grass at a speed visible to the naked eye, the sandy outskirts of land slowly transformed from barren and sandy to fertile and green. Small streams formed like veins across the land as the landscape was carving itself into something more hospitable for life.
If one had a bird's eye view of Hartley's inner world, it would look as if the inner 300 kilometers were a green luscious forest and the outer 300 kilometers was a sandy barren desert, this slowly started to change as the grass bloomed and small shrubs grew up to the size of a human toddler with tufts of green scattered and invading all across the barren desert-like region.
As usual Hartley's heart beat began to synchronize with his gravity field, in the room Hartley floated 5 meters off the bed and hovered there.
Badum Badum, for a moment a flash of blue light brightened the room, spilling under the door and leaking out into the hall then disappeared again as everything in the room floated stably upwards in slow motion.
Badum Badum, Hartley's heart rate slowed to a crawl but every time his heart would beat, it sounded as loud as a drum in his ears, blue light would then be kindled in the room as if a spark was set ablaze among dry timber.
White steam roiled and twisted around his body behaving like smoke, tendrils of the white smoke-like steam escaped under the door, entered the hallway and disappeared without trace.
The process continued for eight grueling hours from Hartley's perspective...
His skin returned to normal, the steam pouring off his body slowly disappeared as he was once again sitting crossed legged on the bed, time once again ran at its normal pace.
Opening his eyes the room went blue for a millisecond then returned to normal as if nothing had happened and the sounds of the whirling wind whistling against the wooden window frame returned.
Glancing outside the window Hartley was shocked to see it was still daylight, he was sure it was supposed to be well into the night but promptly remembered he was cultivating in advance state of focus, his cultivation session was eight hours but in real time only an hour had passed. Hartley was pleased this meant his cultivation was now eight times faster than it used to be, he was now at the thin line between sub realms at any moment he could enter the 6th layer, this was a relief. At least something good came from his emotional turmoil and instability from his encounter with Biyue Jie .
Leaving the second floor Hartley went to find Zhi Ruo, she was on the ground floor as usual reading stories to the children who were rapt at attention, looking like normal children once again. He waited until she had finished, went over hugged and kissed her in front of everyone present, Zhi Ruo blushed scarlet and looked at him side eyed, ”whats going on with you today?” she asked. Hartley smiled hugged her and replied ”lets get Qin Li and go have some delicacies, we've been cooped up here too long.”