229 A Miracle of Life (1/2)

An unknown amount of time passed before Leon was able to regain his consciousness. The turbidity in his eyes cleared and he immediately inspected himself for any damages. There was none.

As a doctor, he understood that the pain that comes from tempering his meridians would be like striking his nerves. The pain would be much greater than creating Body Runes, but he still underestimated his own pain tolerance and passed out.

”You're awake.”

Maya said nonchalantly on the side.

”How long had I passed out?”

”10 minutes.”

”Only 10 minutes?”

Leon creased his brows. It was a lot shorter than he expected, but he immediately understood why after he finished his self-inspection. He had run out of pseudo-Grandmist energy.

The few strands he had refined had already merged with his meridian channels during the tempering process and became a part of it.

He could see parts of his meridians shining with a soft tinge of grey, the color of pseudo-Grandmist, but it was only part and not all.

”Only about 20% has been tempered, huh?”

Leon quietly murmured. It was not bad for a few strands.

”However, If I want to completely temper both inner and outer body, I will need so much more energy.”

Leon slowly lapsed in silence.

The artifact spirit said that he could not use his Revolving Core until it completes its transformation, but as he discovered that Grandmist energy should be used for body forging, it makes no sense to continue the energy refining path.

It was already problematic in the Revolving Core realm. Who is to say that Heaven Ascension realm and Void realm won't have their own sets of problems?

Leon could already foresee the problem that awaits in him on the energy refining path if he was to continue with it.

Grandmist energy was the source of all matter that formed the universe. The stars and stellar bodies were all formed by Grandmist energy.

Hypothetically speaking, if he was to make it to the Heaven Ascension, his pseudo-Grandmist energy might reach a certain level of density and solidification that it might just condense into a star.

Even if it's just a miniature star, the weight and gravitational force isn't something a normal Heaven Ascension Realm practitioner can handle. It would crush him to death.

And to go beyond that, the Void Realm, this realm requires shattering the core to mimic the big bang and form their own miniature universe, the inner world.

This was the first big hurdle of divine practitioners, the tribulation of man before they face the Divine Damnation of heaven.

Most practitioners fail at this step and blow themselves up into nihility, but he might not even put a crack on his core even if he miraculous make it to this step.

He would simply just be converting his cultivation from an Energy Refiner to a Body Forger, albeit with a lot of pain to endure in between.

Having decided on his objective, Leon had a look at his Revolving Core. It was slightly smaller than the last time he checked.

This was not good news, but it did not mean it was very bad news either. It just means that he had no time to waste. It will be harder to revert the core energy back to a lower state, the denser it becomes.

He currently had no control over it, and he simply cannot wait for the transformation to be completed on its own. But what method could he use to regain control of his energy?

”Seems like I have to result to pills,” Leon concluded.

Alchemy was his area of expertise and there were indeed a few pill formulas that appear in his mind without having to browse through the Archive in the Whitespace.

It was not uncommon for divine practitioners to advance their realms without establishing a firm foundation.

The ignorant ones would continue to press forward and hope to correct their mistake by establishing a firmer foundation in their new realm, but courageous and ambitious ones would go back when they realized their foundation was not firm enough.

These are the ones that would seek alchemists to help them correct their mistakes even if it meant dropping an entire realm in cultivation.

After all, a person cannot build a skyscraper with weak and shaky foundations. It would crumble at some point and the whole thing would come crashing down.

Leon took time to check the inventory of his grown herbs and browse through his memories, before settling on a single pill formula.

'A Tier-3 Realm Reversal Pill should do the trick. Thankfully, I collected a wide range of herbal seeds and planted a lot of supplementary herbs, but I am barely meeting the demands. Out of 10 pill formulas, I only have the herbs available for 2 of them.'

'Now that the available herbal garden had grown larger with the artifact spirit's small recovery, I should plant more miscellaneous herbs. I might not need it now, but it's hard to say in the future.'

Leon began to plan ahead and started grabbing a selected bunch of herbals seeds from a small mountain of seeds he had thrown into one corner of the Worldspace.