Interlude Part 2

*grunt*

"that really wasn't a good idea now that i think about it" said Damian as he suppressed a groan before he sat on the ground in a lotus position and scanned the inside of his body

A red coloured violent energy was shooting through his meridians causing them to swelll before they started tearing which caused Damian to start panicking and tried to flush the energy from his system when a whitish gold energy appeared and started healing his wounds causing him to be dumbstruck. Upon closer inspection he noticed that his meridians path ways were wider and more durable than before.

".....hope...can you explain what's happening rightnow?" asked Damian as he observed what was happening thorughout his body

(I-I don't know.....the red energy is definitely from the fiend's core but the i have no idea what the other one is...I've never seen energy so pure in the thousands of years I've been ali-)Hope stalled after she realised what she said and a embarassed expression appeared on her face before it was replaced with her normal neutral look

"....."

(I'M NOT EVEN PAST 5000 YEARS YET, I'M NOT A OLD HAG.....)

"....."

(...Ahem.... you should use this energy to strengthen your meridians as much as it can since you don't know if it'll disappear or not in the future. Then before the ward that that shadow place disappears you should break through to spirit core) Said Hope as she tried to change the subject and act like nothing happened

"okay...wait ward? what ward?" asked Damian as he used his qi to slow down the violent energy and eased it through his meridians one by one before he turned and looked around his surroundings and saw nothing but destruction and when he looked even farther he just saw the other buildings then it hit him and he paused. They fought for so long and caused so much destruction in the city yet none of the experts from the other families appeared not even a civillian was on the street in the area around the compound

(that female heaven core assassin placed a warding formation around the entire compound from the time you , Kie-er and Dara entered the compound. I wasn't able to tell you after everything that was going down but now that there's a break i just remebered)said Hope shamelessly

Damian was speechless at her behaviour and became distracted causing the energy to get free and rampage through his body once more causing blood to flow from his lips as he struggled to bring it back under his conrtol once more, thankfully the golden energy appeared once more and started healing him

(Damian you should really become more disiplined and focus on the task at hand, if i didn't know better I'd think you were a masochist fufufu)

Hope's words caused Damian to nearly lose control once more before he took a deep breath and calmed himself

"how do you know her cultivation?" asked Damian after he finished sending the energy through all his meridians once before he tried 5 at once to test his control, only to groan as it was more painful than before

( i was a genuine peak level void realm stage cultivator , i'd be embarassed if i couldn't find out something like that) said Hope proudly

Shaking his head at her actions, Damian concentrated on his actions, seconds turned to minutes and minues turned to hours and the sun started to peak over the horizon. Damian let a breath before his face scrunched up in 'pain' since he found that the energy no longer had any effect on his meridians and the fiend core was 3/4 of it's previous size, not intending to waste anymore time, he started started compressing his qi into a liquid state

*DRIP*

*DRIP*

*DRIP*

It took Damian a half hour to turn all his qi into a liquid state and his forehead was drenched in sweat from his mental strain. Meditating for bit to get back to his peak state. Damian once more started to compress his qi trying to form a core, every time the core started to take shape it cracked before it disintegrated back into a liquid state no matter how much he strained to hold it together before he gave up.

"this isn't working" said Damian with clear fustration laced in his voice

(ofcourse it isn't working, you're trying to form a single core when you have 3 elements, I'd be more surprised if it actually worked) snorted Hope causing Damian to scratch his head in embarassment.

Damian observed his qi and saw it had 3 different colours, blue for his ice qi, black from the shadowy qi and the whitish gold qi. Taking a deep breath Damian started to form a core using the golden qi and found that it was working perfectly then another problem occured, the core from the fiend started shrinking at a speed visisble to the naked eye

"if this continues i won't have enough qi to form the others" murmured Damian "fuck it" said Damian before 2 more cores appeared next to the first core and started forming at a visible rate as the fiend core shrank and shrank unril it disappeared and caused the cores to stop growing before cracks appeared causing him to grit his teeth as he used his mental energy to keep the cores together. Blood started pouring from his orifices as more cracks appeared, when a shadow appeared behind him

"take it as a gift for taking care of her" said the shadow before she put her arm on his back and started pouring her qi into him causing the cracks to stop before they mended and the core started to grow at an alarming pace before they stopped. A white core with a slight golden tinge could be seen with a smaller blue and black core orbiting around it in his dantian. The white core started pulsing like a heart beating and that seemed to set off a chain reaction as the other 2 followed suit before a stream of energy was released from them that traveled through his body strenghtening it making his cells scream in excitement before it stopped.

Damian felt like his body was filled to the brim with energy and he felt like he'd burst if he didn't let it out, making him tilt his head and let out a roar that caused the ward to crack before it broke. Damian tried to turn around to thank who helped him but before he could 2 figures tackled him back to the floor.