Chapter 49 - Manually Control (2/2)

Still...

'What the hell. Why the mana particles are still not being attracted into my dantian?'

Even after some minutes had passed, Jeremy still found no change with the status quo.

As a result, he still couldn't find a way out of his current predicaments at all.

Jeremy was still observing his upper dantian but with a newfound resigning thought in mind, 'Do I really have to conserve my mana till the end? If so, most of my plans must be modified... I also cannot kill those impos... thi... What!? Some mana particles are being pulled inside!'

Jeremy's thoughts were interrupted mid-way as he finally saw some good results after a long wait.

'Ahh... Come inside me. Come inside more, please. More more...'

[A/N: Sorry for the misleading. Btw, I'm innocent.]

Particle after particle of mana was being guided and absorbed into Jeremy's mana vortex slowly.

Those mana particles came inside Jeremy's upper dantian via the vortex's tail end connected with the outside world's atmosphere. Then they would be guided till they reached approximately the vortex's mid-body before finally being propelled and dispersed into the dark space around the vortex.

Just like that, the 'inferior' mana particles came inside Jeremy's upper dantian.

The process never stopped; it continued like this for two more hours.

Until...

...

Two hours later...

*Huff* *Huff*

The heavy breathing sounds of a man sitting isolated at a chamber's corner resounding out...

Jeremy was feeling spent and exhausted both physically and mentally, while he thought to himself,

'I still don't understand why most mages call this method a meditation instead of cultivation in ancient times. In fact, meditation should be a thing capable of making a practitioner feel relaxed and refreshed. Meanwhile, cultivation should be a thing that makes people tired from their arduous and long road of polishing their power.'

'If I feel worn out every time I do meditation, I will never get used to it, no matter what.

In Jeremy's past life, he had done thorough researches about a controversy between 'cultivation' and 'meditation', as he had been quite skeptical about those two terms.

Even after doing some researches in his boring times, he still couldn't find a definitive answer for that controversy...

According to his various documental researches, Jeremy only discovered that 'there was no real answer for that disputation'.

Nevertheless, there were still many books that said such things such as, a path of magic was discovered later than a path of qi, aura, and other paths. As a result, the mages of old times wanted to be distinct from others, so they called the way to cultivate themselves, mages, as 'meditation' instead of 'cultivation'.

While in some books stated that meditation indeed helped calm the mind and relax the body if meditated in the lower stages. As for the name 'meditation', it was clear that it's originated from its lower stages. However, with the higher levels in meditation stages, the strenuous being put on a practitioner's body would also increase.

Nonetheless, another statement in some ancient books stated that when a practitioner achieved the highest level of cultivation of the magical pathway, that said 'cultivation' would become 'meditation' by itself, as the practitioner could meditate forever without feeling any stress put on their body.

The statement simply meant that if a person reached the highest level of meditation, that person could meditate forever without feeling tired physically and mentally. Thus, the ancient mages called it meditation instead of cultivation.

However...

All those researches and assumptions were nothing but bullshit for Jeremy, the former great sage of the human race and universe.

Even for him as a former great sage who had achieved something beyond stage 10 and reached a realm called 'beyond technique' itself, he still couldn't find a clue about the reason behind the origin of the word, 'meditation'.

That's why Jeremy had discarded his researches about the controversy between cultivation and meditation a long time ago.

'Or I do get it the wrong way all along. Maybe it is just really a way to give themselves some uniquenesses in the way of cultivation for the mages of old times? After all, since ancient time, every mage is as prideful as a heavenly god themself.'

Shaking his head slightly to discard those unnecessary thoughts from his head, Jeremy started observing his upper dantian instead.

*Sigh*

Jeremy's sigh suddenly rang out within the chamber's corner, and then he thought,

'Those mana particles don't willingly blend together as I've thought...'

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[A/N: Please read important notes below.]