51 Misadventure In the Taiji River (1/2)

All in all, Jam's time in the Thunder Valley was very rewarding. In less than a day, he gained two Dao Domains and a beast companion. Jam also picked up a bunch of rare thunder-attributed natural treasures.

Now it was time for Jam to continue his journey towards the mountains. However, now that he had a beast companion by his side, he could also practice his Targeted Gravitation and Time Locking skills on Danger Noodle instead of rocks.

For this reason, Danger Noodle did not have a good time; constantly teleporting around and having her body pressured by Jam's skills... but at least Jam was improving his skills and it's not like Danger Noodle was being hurt.

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The Thunder Valley was just as large as the tundra, as Jam spent several hours teleporting through millions of kilometers before exiting the thunder valley. The next biome was actually a river. However, Jam felt that this river was special in some way. He didn't know why he felt this way, until Tzatziki shouted ”A Taiji River!”

”What's a Taiji River?” Jam had never heard of this term. Even the jade slip he received from the library's receptionist had no information on Taiji Rivers.

”A Taiji River is a special environment, like the thunder valley we just left.”

”Oh?”

”Anyways, this is a good place to study the Daos of Yin, Yang, Light, and Darkness.”

”Neat~”

Jam already knew how to prepare for his next meditation session. He began teleporting towards the center of the river, while collecting the natural treasures of the environment. As he plundered through the land, Jam thought 'First it was the Tundra for Ice and Yin, then it was the Valley for Thunder. Now I'm entering a River for Yin, Yang, Light, and Darkness? If only I passed through a Earth Domain. I'd have natural treasures for everyone that came along this ride!' He hoped that others ran into natural domains like him and had gathered special treasures, so that they could trade after they met up.

As the cycle of teleportation continued on, Jam knew he was very close to the mountains, as the level of the demonic beasts in the vicinity were proof. All the demonic beasts Jam could find, were at least at the Saint Master level, and the highest level was at the Saint Lord Stage.

Jam guessed that after crossing this Taiji River, he would finally reach the actual Titanic Beast Mountain Range. However, he was having trouble dealing with Saint Lords with his current cultivation base, so he decided to complete his Soul Fusion Stage cultivation base before reaching the mountains.

It took Jam half a day to reach the center of the river, and he had collected thousands of natural treasures along the way. Some of these treasures, like the Yang Spirit Fruits, would be used right away, in preparation of the pills he would be taking while studying the Dao of Yang.

In the same way Jam made a cave in the heart of the thunder valley, he created his own temporary home underwater in the river. Jam wasn't at the level of not needing to breath, so after making his underwater cave, he used his Spatial Storage dimension to displace all the water in his cave. Once he finished his business in the Taiji River, he would return the displaced water.

In his cave, Jam set up a Solar System Array, and concocted several batches of Pure Yang Pills.

Jam wasn't as proficient in the Yang Dao as he was in his other primary cultivation Daos, so he initially believed that he would meditate in the Taiji River until he reached the Dao Infusion level. However, he reached Dao Infusion with the Yang Dao too quickly; it took him less than an hour to accomplish this goal.

This made him think that the Yang Dao was easier for him to meditate on than the rest of his Daos. But the truth was, Jam was underestimating the effects of meditating within a special environment. The reason he had this misunderstanding was because he never tried meditating on his respective Daos before; only now that he was in special environment, did he actually start doing it.

Jam stayed at the Taiji River for a couple more hours meditating over the Yang Dao, but he stopped gaining insights before he reached the Dao Domain level. Now that Jam reached Dao Infusion with the Yang Dao, he could integrate the Yang Fire Combat Armor with the rest of his transformations.

With his meditation complete, Jam told Danger Noodle to prevent anything from disturbing him as he made his breakthrough. But Danger Noodle already knew the risks Jam would be taking, by making his breakthrough.

Jam took a deep breath and started his breakthrough; his body started glowing once again, shining with the brilliance of his soul. Time slowly passed, and both Jam and Danger Noodle knew that it would be very unlike for an enemy to appear as Jam was making his breakthrough, as the cave Jam built was underwater and closed off.

However, the unexpected happened when a Saint Lord appeared to have teleported to Jam's side and cut off his arm, while he was still in the middle of a breakthrough! The only reason Jam didn't have his entire body cut in half was because Danger Noodle had moved him slightly off course of the enemy's attack.