Chapter 386: Success? (1/2)

”Arghh… so much thinking, and I feel like I've made barely any progress,” Alex thought.

It was 11 pm and Alex had decided to stop thinking about the structures and the composition of the pills. The information was way too overwhelming for him.

And in the end, he had yet to figure out how any of the shapes had to do with absorbing energy. Was a certain shape supposed to only absorb a certain amount of energy? Was a certain shape supposed to only absorb a specific kind of energy? Was the threading-like shape from the clockwise and counterclockwise motion supposed to affect the type of energy or the amount?

There were so many questions that he just couldn't answer in a short period of time. At least, not by himself. He decided to start cultivating.

He sat down and called Pearl to start cultivating. Pearl came as asked and got onto his lap and started shining a little as he started cultivating.

Numerous cuts appeared on Alex's body, but none of those hurt him anymore. He was about to close off his eyes and start cultivating when he remembered something that he had been meaning to do ever since he thought of entering the Meridian Realm.

So, he reached into his storage bag and brought out a Spirit Cleansing Lily.

”Now that I've broken through to the Meridian realm, maybe I can use it again. I'm pretty sure my spiritual sea did increase after I fought with Zexi. Which would mean that there is a possibility of it increasing further,” he thought.

”Yes, I must try this,” he thought. He was pretty hopeful. Even if normal people had limitations, he had a great body and talent, as well as a fascinating spiritual root that he didn't understand completely yet.

So, he hoped to get lucky.

He held the flower in his palm and started cultivating. In less than a minute, the trance took over him, and he fell asleep.

He opened his eyes early in the morning. He looked at the time and saw that it was 7 am. He was used to waking up at around this time nowadays. He wasn't complaining though; he had breakfast to eat with the ladies every day.

”Oh right, the flower,” he remembered and looked at his hand. He was hoping for it to be gone, but expecting it to still be there.

”Huh?” he thought as he saw his hands. They were empty; the flower was gone.

”Wait, it works? Haha, it works!” he shouted out in joy. He accidentally woke up the cultivating Pearl and the cuts all over his body stopped.

He sent out his spiritual sense, but it barely extended to around 22 meters without exertion. That was his natural limit after his fight with Zexi.

”Oh right, stupid me. The spiritual distance won't increase. Only the spiritual quantity will,” he thought and sent his spiritual sense into his spiritual sea.

”Huh?” he said in confusion. The size of the spiritual sea was unchanged.

”Wait, what's going on?” he thought. His flower was gone, yet the spiritual sea hadn't increased at all.

'Was that a defective flower?' he wondered. But it couldn't be. He clearly remembered picking up the right flower for all of the lilies. If not, the flowerbed would have turned to ruin.

”Ok, I know I did not make a mistake. Then what is go—”

Suddenly, a foreign spiritual sense washed over his body and he heard a single thing in his mind.