Taking it all

The mist became thicker and thicker until it looked like a viscous liquid from afar. Its movement was reminiscent of a living creature as it moved towards Hao Xuan's mouth without any outside influence.

With bated breath Hao Xuan waited as the intensity of the hunger increased tenfold in that brief moment. His insides were burning with an insufferable appetite, the likes of which very few had known.

When the mist reached his mouth it felt like the first rain after decades of drought.

He didn't have to do anything other than absorb the energy and...everything else that came with it.

The tremendous torrent of energy rushed into his body like a maddened bull and was immediately disseminated throughout. But with that cool sensation came something he had never expected.

A series of extremely potent emotions and memories he had never felt before.