Two in one go?

Feeling Claire's hug all around me, what else could I do but accept her willingness to help?

'From the looks of things, there seem to be no adverse effects so far,' I thought while observing with utmost and undisturbed focus how the fluctuations of my spiritual energy reached out and fused into Claire's core. 

The theory behind this whole concept, even if accidental in execution, was quite solid. We both wielded the powers that should belong to the sixth realm of cultivation before, even if not exactly in the most straightforward way. The only reason why we could do it with just the prowess of our cores alone was the lack of practice and sufficient spiritual energy to make the leap over the fifth stage's bottleneck.