Once I Wake
Ryu felt the changes for a long time before adjusting himself and accepting what he was sensing as fact. Things were not always as good as they seemed, but at least in this context, it seemed as though it was more good than it was bad.
His Embryonic Qi had become a bit of a sore spot for him, and rightfully so.
Much like everything else, his Embryonic Qi had changed after he stepped into the Sky God Realm as well. It became akin to a raging river, whereas before it was just a trickle of milky-white droplets. And yet, it still took him using over a third of it before he could actually heal himself.
There were always trade offs with power, he understood that. But this was too much.
A single drop of Embryonic Qi had been able to heal a Transcendent Sky God like Eska back to a full bill of health, and yet it took so much of it for him to move the needle for himself.