Yearning for the Moon

Chapter Seventeen

I sit calmly in the room I was trapped in, I can hear the guards checking in on me every few minutes, maybe they thought it was weird I wasn't screaming to be let out, but I had certainly experienced much worse than this before with my blood family, this pretty room was nothing. It was a cage, but it was one I was content to wait in until my plan came into fruition.

I retreated into the spatial world, content to have Maeve warn me if I needed to return, just because I was content to wait here didn't mean I would do nothing, after all my weakness was part of the reason I was in this situation, and there was only one way to fix that, to get stronger. Cultivating wasn't hard, though it could certainly be painful at times, with my herbalism skills, and the Cultivation crystal Cato left me, I was uniquely prepared in ascending cultivation levels quickly. I hadn't wanted to risk it before, but in order to save Andreas and the rest of his family, I would stop at nothing, even if it caused me immense pain. "Are you sure, Mistress, this is extremely dangerous." I stare at the Cultivation crystal in front of me, confident this was the right choice, my only choice.

"Yes, there is no other way, do not pull me out Fluorite, not until I ask you to." I can feel her worried stare as I pull out some equipment I would need for what I was about to do.

I take a Qi pill, before painting the Cultivation Elixir from the top of my forehead, down my face and chest till the bottom of my stomach, coating all the openings of my spirit with the energy drawing elixir. I was doing a risky thing taking a Qi pill that already enhanced my cultivation as well as using the Cultivation Elixir that forced my body to accept more Spirit energy at once, not to mention the powerful Cultivation crystal I was about to use, now if I had been taking my time I would have cultivated in front of it first, but this was not a moment where I took my time this was the moment to take risks. So I enter inside the cultivation crystal, where instead of drawing energy from the crystal towards me like I would from the outside, I would be directly surrounded by it on all sides.

The pressure was immense, I felt as if I was going to collapse under the pressure, but I remained strong, sitting cross legged on the hot crystal floor, one would assume it would be cold, but it was burning with heat because of the spirit energy it contained. The force weighing down on me was enormous, and I hadn't even started cultivating yet, once I did the pressure would multiply, because not only would I not be shielding my body like my spirit energy was doing now, I would be inviting the strong energy inside me, offering it the opportunity to tear me to pieces if I wasn't strong enough.

I don't know if I would die in the real world if I died here, after all it wasn't my physical body here, but I still imagine the consequences were too ghastly to ponder for long, especially because of the risk I was about to take. With a deep steadying breath I open up my soul points and allow the spirit energy to rush inside me, it hit me like a mountain, I could feel my bones crack and break, the pressure was too immense.

And if I didn't need to strengthen myself in order to free Andreas, I wouldn't be risking this, but it was too late to turn back now, it was an interesting way to cultivate, I didn't have to draw the energy to me, the Cultivation Elixir did that on its own, but the spirit energy it was forcing inside me was too much my body couldn't process it quickly enough so it wreaked havoc on my body, it was all I could do to direct some to repair my broken bones and cracking inner foundation. When I feel I have gone as far as I can risk, I pull out a Qi Block pill and swallow it.

The pain makes me black out for a second, before it all comes rushing back in, as the Qi Block pill forcefully seals the cracks on my inner foundation, only for them to be re-broken almost as soon as they are fixed, there was so much pain, so much energy, I didn't even know if I had ascended any cultivation levels, there was too much distractions to even try to tell, all I could do was grit and bare the pain as I shoved a handful of High-Grade Healing pills down my throat.