11 : The First Year I Pt. 11 (1/2)

”The name of this method is called inner Yin and Yang; it can only be done with a person of the opposite sex. There are several steps you can take to increase your essence with this technique, but I'll only explain to you the simplest one.

Now you two, hold each other's hand with both hands. Good, just like that. Close your eyes and focus on your partner. Try to feel the essence within their body, once you have a good feel for it pull it towards you. Use your right arm as a channel to guide the essence into your own body.

Don't worry if you can't get it on your first try; it does take some time before the average person can utilize this technique.”

Sweat emerged on the foreheads of both the youths. One could see how hard they were concentrating.

Shortly after they both let go of each other's hands.

”This is a method I found when I was in Paris years ago. I slightly adjusted it to my own standards to get the same effect. The reason this is so special is because you can do it with anyone as long as they are the opposite gender.

In ancient China, they also had a method like this which allowed one to increase their inner chi up to five times the normal rate. That method is a little inappropriate for students, but it can also be applied now for the same growth rate. I would not recommend it unless you have a permanent partner because at that point you are no longer channeling each other's essence you are mixing them together and absorbing it. Due to that reason, you can only have one partner and if you try to do it with anyone else your essence will become chaotic.”

Darius went further into detail, explaining that finding a random person you'll have an increase of at least two time your normal rate. However, if you find someone with the same attribute as yourself, you can obtain three times the effect.

He explained the type of each essence in a person's body.

Most EXO essence followed the same standard. Red essence in the body would mean that the person had a fire type EXO. Blue meant water, silver was ice, and the list went on and on.

”Mr. Hellbane, what happens if your partner's essence is much greater than your own? Will the benefits be the same?”

One of the females asked this question.

”No, it is ideal you find someone who has the same amount of essence as you as well. This will stimulate your own growth at a regulated speed allowing both parties to benefit.

If one person had a larger pool than the other, only one person would benefit. True, that person's essence would increase at a much faster rate than usual because it is channeling essence from a much more prominent source. However, the quicker the increase, the higher the risk you would have as well. Your essence has a high chance to become unstable, meaning that at any time you'd have a chance to overflow.”

When she heard him say that you'd have a chance to overflow she knew how high the risk was then. As an EXO user, the last thing you wanted to do was have an overflow of essence.

Overflow was when your essence was greater than your body's capacity. A person's body can only hold a certain amount of essence, this amount will increase over time, but it always increased slowly.

Think of it as a cup. A cup could only hold so much water, when it was full, it cannot hold any more water. Water can still go in the cup, but it will cause an overflow making the water inside leak out.

Where does that water go? You'd clean it up of course.

For EXO essence it is different, your body is the cup. You cannot clean it up if it overflows. When an EXO user overflowed one of two things happened. You either died because your body could not handle the amount you were trying to give it. Or your body mutated and you lost a vast majority of your reasoning becoming something else entirely.