"You," Dana silent after saying a word, doesn't know what to say. He then sighs, "This is the longest breakthrough I ever saw."
"I know," I smile after hearing his remark.
He not wrong, sun position and it's orange light give me hint that it almost evening, which means I did my breakthrough for about three hours. Breakthrough is different from cultivating, it doesn't need a long time to do it, on the contrary — the sooner it finished, the better it for cultivators.
"Even though you succeed earlier, doesn't mean it will also succeed in the future," he stares into my eyes to makes sure that I listen to him. "The time you need in this breakthrough is three times longer than the research reports predict. You know that — the longer your breakthrough time, means the higher your failure probability."
He's making a fair argument, but this is something that everyone knows. It's common sense that cultivators need to stop the breakthrough process after stepping into the next level or stage — it's to stop effluence Qi from cultivators' body. The process of breakthroughs are like opening gates inside cultivators body — nature's Qi can come through those gates and strengthen cultivators' body, but that also means it will allow Qi inside the body to flow outside. The total amount of Qi inside their body won't decrease because new Qi will replenish it soon.
However, the Qi inside their body is more valuable from Qi in nature, they painstakingly refine those raw Qi from nature with their cultivation-technique and shaping it to become usable in real-world combat. There is no way they will let out those improved Qi for raw Qi as exchange — after all, cultivators' body has a limit about how much of Qi it can absorb, it is better to save as much those precious Qi after the body can't absorb any more.
There are some people try to stay as long as possible in the breakthrough state without care about their need to refine their Qi later, but what awaits them isn't some hidden breakthrough — most of them failed their breakthrough and got significant backlash, meanwhile the success one didn't get stronger than people who did traditional breakthrough either.
Therefore, usually, experienced cultivators won't stay in breakthrough state for more than necessary — because the more time they use to breakthrough means they throw away their precious polished Qi. The only explanation why they stay longer in breakthrough is because of the amount of obstacle which makes their breakthrough yet complete.
From the outsider point of view, I who need three times longer than necessary means there are many obstacles at my breakthrough — because no one in their sane mind will throw away their painstakingly refined Qi and honestly, neither do I.
I'm protruding my right hand towards Dana with a smirk, "You can check it yourself."
After all, showing is better than telling.
He silent for a moment and then sigh, "fine."
He sits down in front of me, grabs my hand and then checks the flow of my Qi. His expressions are changing funnily — joy, agony, delight, anguish, many series of expression happen on his face.
"What, how?" his shocked expression amuses me.
"I know right," the smirk still won't leave my face alone.
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Glooming silence in a small but glamorous room — its walls are coated by gold while there are many shiny ornaments on each of furniture. Two people sitting face to face, a man and a woman — the man gazing with eyes full of lust while the woman smiles and her eyes seem let out a confident glare — doesn't let out a slight sign of her disgust towards the man.
"I need your explanation, Wrach," she says while sipping a cup of red tea.
Wrach's butler delivered this tea, there are some tasteless and odorless aphrodisiac in this cup, but if he thinks that she will fall with this level trickery — he's too naive. Vys already give her compiled reports of this man — his unsavory personality, his nefarious reputation, and his rotten personal life.
His hobby in dominating women is his guarded secret, the Aracorv try to keep it under wraps to not stain their 'noble' name — but it still doesn't prevent Vys to obtain all his information.
With proper preparation, there is no need to worry about his scheme. He is slick but still not as shrewd as Vys — creating antidotes for possible poison is just a child's play for her as the owner of a pharmaceutical company, she even can make an antidote for this aphrodisiac inside her body — however, she still follows Vys advice to consume his potion before met this wicked man.
"About what?" he shrugs his shoulder as if he doesn't understand her words.
"The fact that you banned my shops from this continent."
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Dana: …
Dana: huh, did you say something