Ch.8: Work In Progress

"Well, at least you formed another core!" Lillia said in a cheerful tone. It was evident she was trying to cheer me up.

I sat in my wheelchair in deep thought at what just happened.

'It does make sense I guess...so either I form a smaller core or I make another phoenix layer. Or maybe I could strengthen the first layer?' A multitude of thoughts rampaged my head but on the outside, it looked like I had just zoned out.

"Okay, ley's try the smaller core, but first, I need to sleep." Surprisingly, it wasn't uncomfortable to sleep in the wheelchair, and that was thanks to the retractable leg rest! Sadly, I had to manually pull it out, I wish I made it automatic or something.

Although it was in the middle of the day, I was a second away from fainting from energy exhaustion. I leaned back and before I could say 'Blue Bull' I was asleep.

'Sheesh, He's been exhausting himself a lot. Whatever technique he's practicing is definitely hard.' Lillia thought to herself as she stared at the now sleeping Killian. Although they had only known each other for a day and a half, since he wasn't from this world she was basically his teacher as she taught him everything she knew.

Watching him use the 'Phoenix & Crow Technique' left her astonished multiple times. It may not be apparent to him but it was clear as day to Lillia that he had he could hold way more magical energy than the average person in the same realm as him. She watched him try to form a phoenix over and over until he finally did it. The shocking thing about the technique wasn't that the phoenix had destructive power, it was the absurd amount of energy required for it to work successfully.

"I'll cultivate for now and then go find something for us to eat." Just because she and Killian were cultivators didn't mean they didn't need to eat, at least not yet.

[6 Hours Later]

'His energy is almost fully replenished, he'll be waking up soon I think.' Lillia thought as she finished cultivating. She had reached a bottleneck in her cultivation, it was a rather famous one that every cultivator had to go through once they reach the 'Spirit Warrior' realm.

This bottleneck was known for stopping aspiring cultivators from pursuing their dreams. After breaking through from Mortal Realm to Spirit Warrior realm, at the last stage of Spirit Warrior realm is one of the hardest bottlenecks to break through and once you do, then you can be considered a true cultivator.

If Lillia broke through the bottleneck and into the 'Spirit Knight' realm then her power would increase greatly! Lillia headed into the forest just as Killian woke up.

"?" I was confused as I woke up. Normally Lillia would either be cultivating or sleeping but it seems she wasn't here.

'Did she leave me? You really can't trust girls.' I thought to myself as I adjusted myself in the wheelchair. I immediately started cultivating to fully wake myself up.

[1 Hour Later]

Once again I felt the familiar barrier inside my body limiting me from absorbing any more energy, but it was drastically weaker than the previous one. Based on Lillia's knowledge, the previous barrier was the bottleneck for breaking through to the Spirit Warrior realm.

'Service can you show me realms in a list from weakest to strongest?' It didn't take a genius to figure out that there were many realms. As I asked the question, a window appeared before me listing lines of information.