Embodiments of Affinities

Slowly, the pressure built. It was a slow but constant process, and slightly faster than using the whirlpool method. Daedalus continued to do this for three days, and at the end of the third day the mortal energy began to condense.

If the process where enlarged to be seen by your eyes in detail, it would be as if you where looking at the process of water forming from its elementary particles. The only difference would be that it was glowing with energy.

Once he had achieved making the first drop Daedalus didn't stop though and used this drop to speed up the process of condensation. This quickly enough resulted in the drop getting larger until it was as large as his dantian. Understandably this gave Daedalus a bit of a bloated feeling which he had expected.

Now with two different and equally sized balls of liquid mortal energy. One was slightly darker with a dark blue tinge while the other was lighter with a light red tinge. Still the two energies where clear and Daedalus felt he was onto something.

So he followed his instincts, and slowly the Yin and Yang began to whirl around eachother slowly coming closer and closer. Then they touched, it wasn't anything ridiculous like an explosion but instead a rather gentle envelopment.

These where the embodiment of his talents in Yin and Yang, and Daedalus knew it was only possible because of his affinity for the two elements that they could form like this. If he was right then there might be other connections to the elements like this one.

An example of this could be his blood could equal water, his body the earth, his bones being metal. These where all possibilities he had considered in the past but he had never actually found something that guaranteed it like the Yin and Yang energies.

This in turn made him return to a thought he had in the past, to cultivate on the idea that each part of cultivation had something related to the elements. Now he could try and cultivate the embodiments of his affinity. Potentially it could mean he could make his affinity greater using this method, though it was far-fetched.

Disregarding his deeper thoughts for a moment Daedalus explained his discovery to Ultraun. Daedalus believed that as they shared a soul in some ways that Ultraun would be capable of doing this as well.

Sadly it would be a few days before that could be guaranteed, on the bright side Daedalus was planning to stay and cultivate for a while longer. This would give him enough time to consider more deeply what elements fit into which parts of cultivation, and hopefully allow him to adapt the legacy cultivation method to this new idea.

And so began a long and difficult undertaking. Daedalus would later come to regret his decision but also be quite glad that he had chosen correctly. But his uncle was definitely right, creating a new cultivation method is an incredibly difficult thing to do.