Recovery Part 1

Opening his eyes and regaining his consciousness, Lex instantly felt a rush of agonising pain throughout his body.

While Lex was in the mindscape earlier, he had still managed to place all the valuable bodies of the beasts into the inventory by sending a signal to Ashura who somehow managed to tap into Lex's inventory.

Ashura struggled with Lex's body, but still managed to drag the unconscious body through the rubble, and after half an hour, Ashura managed to reach the orphanage.

Ashura had exhausted all the energy he had and as soon as he reached his targeted destination, his raven form instantly dissipated and returned into Lex's soul.

The old lady saw Lex's body outside from inside the orphanage, and with the help of a few of the older children, managed to drag him in and lift him onto a bed.

All the gashes on his body were burning because of a weird medicinal cream the mysterious old lady had smothered them in.

Lex was in extreme pain, but after everything he had been through, being able to bear with pain was something Lex was proficient in.

"Where am I," asked Lex through clenched teeth to the woman and the children.

Lex decided he would play ignorant and would pretend that he was baffled and didn't know what happened.

"Good pain endurance, intelligent, weird abilities and pet and an unknown origin. What an interesting boy you are," stated the woman as she seemingly glared deep into his soul with her scary eyes.

Despite her weak body and vitality, her eyes changed to that of an experienced and merciless killer from her previously old, frail and innocent demeanour.

"I can't hide anything from your scary eyes" mumbled Lex as he chuckled slightly, which increased the pain in his body.

"Tell me what happened and don't act like you don't know what I am talking about," said directly.

"Well, I suspected there was a beast lair in the slums because of the increase of beast hunting missions in the slums and so I accepted all the lower level hunting missions and was looking for the beasts then heard a howl so went there and there were 38 beasts..."

Lex gave her a detailed explanation of everything that happened, but skipped the parts about the system, such as the pills and Eye Powers, and Ashura so that his secrets aren't revealed.

She could tell that everything he told her was the truth, but also knew there were parts of the story that didn't add up and that he was concealing his power and the way he battled wasn't as detailed as the rest of his explanation, but decided not to pry too much.

"What is this cream that you put on my wounds," he asked trying to change the focus on what happened as he looked into her curious eyes.

"Just a medicinal cream I made that will speed up the healing of your wounds," she replies as she turns to leave, leaving him lying on the bed.

He believed her about the creams as he felt his cells around the wounds seemed to be tingling and joining together to heal the wounds quicker.

Running an orphanage with dozens of children was no easy task and she obviously had her own stuff to do, which Lex was thankful for, so that he could have some time to relax without her interrogating and watching him.

Lex was sweating profusely after the woman's glaring eyes made him nervous.

Lex struggled to move his fatigued and injured body, but managed to slither his way up to a sitting position on the bed.

He could feel that his body and energy reserves had gotten stronger and larger and also felt that the now dormant Ashura within his soul was much stronger.

In the sitting position with his back against the wall, it was much better and easier for Lex to circulate his energy and semi-cultivate.

The optimum position for cultivation is sat cross-legged which opens up the meridians most as opens up the energy trails so you can circulate it easier and faster.

Lex was only semi-cultivating, like the rest of those who call themselves levellers, as without a cultivation method that matches their spiritual root, they are merely absorbing energy and storing it in an inefficient way and without any other abilities and completely suitable skills with it.

As Lex circulated his energy he found that his energy was very impure and sluggish due to him overusing pills since transmigrating to this reality.

Lex felt this and knew it would have bad effects, but didn't know how to deal with it and knew if he didn't fix it it would hinder his cultivation and combat power as he would only be able to manipulate his energy at lower speeds.

[System is there any way for me to remove the effects of overusing pills] asked Lex within his mind with a worried expression, remembering that it was when the Originator Eye Demon was in control of his body was when there was most progress and he didn't want to be reliant.

{Ding, pills are created with valuable materials and plants that are abundant in energy and have various effects depending in their characteristics. However, just like beast core energy, it is impure and if relied on consistently will cause the user's energy to become sluggish, thin and sometimes may even cause the user to reach a halt in cultivation...} explained the system.

[Does that mean that it can't be fixed] wailed Lex within his mind, which interrupted the system.

{Ding, if the host would allow me to finish, the various effects can be reduced and removed by refining your energy and the rest of the energy that you absorb to make sure that your energy stays pure}

[So how do I refine my energy] asked Lex impatient to gain strength.

{Ding, The Mental Void Method, which you have the Mortal part of, is a small part of an infinitely large cultivation method that focuses on the mind, eyes, emotions and the spacial law to cultivate. Another part of the method is the Void Energy Refinement which is a method that allows the user to take in any kind of energy and convert it into spacial energy through the void.} stated the system.

Lex once again felt that he was still ignorant and still wanted to know more.

[What is the entire method called and how do I get the Void Energy Refinement method] asked Lex.

{Ding, the method is too profound to be completely known about by the host and the mortal part Void Energy Refinement can be bought for 10,000 points or can be understood by the host independently}

As he heard this Lex felt like crying.

He had nowhere near that amount of points and to understand it he probably needed to learn The Mental Void Method that he was saving to learn after he completed his mission, to become an E-Rank in 14 days, which he had 12 left.

This left him in an unsolvable situation where either the mission or the level of his power temporarily needs to be sacrificed.

{Ding, A temporary fix is Energy Circulating Pills that can temporarily make the host's energy more flexible and malleable and be a short time fix} suggested the system.

"What don't you have pills for" exclaimed Lex.