221 Blessing in Disguise? (2/2)

But then again, none of that matters if he cannot draw any power from it. He didn't know what was going on, but neither his divine cultivation nor awakening cultivation was reacting to him.

'What about my elemental seeds?' Leon thought with a frown.

Entering the subconscious space of his soul core, Leon's body shook. His elemental seeds were all missing. They weren't orbiting his soul core as they should be. In fact, his soul core looks rather different.

'The elemental seeds are merging with my… soul core? This… where did this wood elemental seed come from?'

Leon attempted to analyze calmly, but he was shocked by the additional elemental seed that complete his five-element cycle.

'Was this change brought forth by the unknown changes of my body?'

From the outside, Leon had his brows furrowed deeply. As this was happening, Maya continued to study him intriguingly. She seems to be more aware of what was happening to him than he was as she was awake during the time he was unconscious.

Leon slowly opened his eyes with a pale face.

'Not good. Nothing's working.'

It feels like his cultivation had been sealed with a lock, but with no key to unlock. Did he have to destroy his cultivation and start over?

Leon became lost.

”Hey, hey, you look like a little kid that's about to cry after losing sight of your mommy,” Maya said teasingly.

Glancing at the baby-faced artifact spirit, Leon responded with, ”I don't want to hear that coming from you.”

”You seem to be wondering what is going on with your cultivation. Good thing is, I know what happened. Bad thing is, I don't know why it happened.

Some color returned to Leon's face as he perked his ears and looked at Maya with rapt attention.

”Tell me,” Leon said bluntly.

”Is this how you should be asking someone a favor?” The artifact spirit grumbled in dissatisfaction.

Leon began making a complicated face. He wanted to say since the divine book was bound to him, he was her master, but he did not say this.

This was an artifact spirit with an attitude. Perhaps, it had switched too many owners, thus no longer displaying the loyalty and devotion an artifact spirit would to its master.

Leon could imagine the artifact spirit exploding and saying something like, ”You are not the master of me, I am the master of you!!!”

Thus, he had refrained from saying something that would displease it, lest it decides not to tell him what he wanted to know.

However, he could also not get himself to beg. That would be lowering his standing as the master. He did not want to look like a pushover.

Seeing Leon's expression, Maya didn't plan on making it difficult for him. She was only asking casually.

However, she still intended to observe him for a period of time and see if he was a worthy master. None of her previous owners had been able to use her to the full extent of her capability.

”Well, I don't know what kind of body you have, but it was like a black hole, swallowing up all the energy and vitality in the surrounding greedily. Right now, it's in the middle of a transformation process.”

That is to say, he won't have access to his own cultivation until the transformation process is completed. But what sparked its initiation?

Did his body know how to gather its energy towards a central point and protect itself? If it did, wouldn't it have been better if it focused on stopping his bleeding?

Leon was puzzled by Maya's statement. His body couldn't possibly ingest all that energy, not to mention where did all that energy go if it did?

”My body did? You don't know anything about my Five Element Body?” Leon asked quizzically.

”I don't. The technique you are practicing seems to be more ancient than I am.” Maya shook her head and answered.

”Well… never mind then.”

Leon didn't fixate on the matter. Since the artifact spirit didn't know then it didn't know.

”But you said my body absorbed all the energy? How are you awake then? You seemed to have recovered enough not to fall back into a deep slumber, not to mention you once told me you needed a lot of energy.” Leon looked at the artifact spirit quizzically with a strong gaze.

Under his strong gaze, Maya became awkward and started fidgeting guiltily with fingers and head lowered.

”Well… your body couldn't hold all that energy, so it began seeping into me and allowed me to wake up. Your body was still pretty swelled up and absorbing the excess energy helps me recover quicker… so I decided to help you out by taking some of that energy away too while I was it.”

'Some, you say? More like everything, no?'

Leon's mouth twitched. His own energy didn't increase, only its state had changed.

”Wait, what about all the wood energy? Why didn't it heal my body?”