Debilitating Pain

The creation of a new skill was easy to Daedalus, however this had quickly changed when Daedalus began his work on the new method. First he was trying to modify an already amazing legacy cultivation method, then you have to add in the difficulties of finding what parts of cultivation match each element.

Daedalus who sat below the sturdy ebony tree, just didn't find it plausible. It wasn't that he hadn't tried, but nothing quite fit, it was like a puzzle missing half the pieces. So he had resorted to meditating while observing every function of his own body.

He felt that blood was what would make the embodiment of Water however there was a missing piece that stopped his progression. It would take another month of constant revisions before Daedalus finally chose to take a break.

And so for the first time in months Daedalus opened his eyes. Surrounding him was a garden of colour. The ebony tree practically shone with a black luster while a large number of energy filled flowers surrounded him. It just so happened that when Daedalus looked at the ebony tree he came to a small realisation.

It was stupid, but so smart. So incredulous, but so incredible. The nature of cultivation, all descriptions that Daedalus had read on the theory of this topic said that it was to go beyond the heavens and take control of your fate. But Daedalus had another theory, based off of the very word cultivation.

To Daedalus the word cultivate, referred to the cultivation of plants. It was ridiculous that Daedalus took so long to realise this. It also explained why plants could have any number of elemental combinations. They where in a sense cultivating.

Daedalus knew this line of thought would need refinement, a lot of refinement. But he was willing to travel down this line of thought at least until it halted his progress. It did allow him one idea though, the sap of a tree is basically the trees blood.

This blood was what took the energy around the body and nourished the tree. The circulatory system was a secondary meridian system but it was more specialised. And it had a core, or dantian, the heart. He had actually used this before however, he hadn't considered combining the two.

If he did this there was even a chance of him becoming a cripple should he fail. But he didn't hesitate to sit back down and begin. First he mapped out the two systems and found all of the points that they met. Then he began, he took control of his immortal energy and forced it into a blade like structure, then he began cutting.

The pain was excruciating, so he screamed. This scream caused Ultraun to run and check on Daedalus. Ultraun found him quickly due to the screams and found Daedalus spasming in pain. That is when the soul connection tore open causing Ultraun to feel a small fragment of this pain.

Ultraun dropped to his knees as his face blanked. Daedalus' soul had in an attempt to stop the pain forced the soul connection to divert some of the pain to each of his soul fragments.