The moment the eggshell disappeared into powder revealing the creature inside, Fell sensed an extreme sense of kinship toward the creature that had grown inside his Dantian. He couldn't exactly explain the feeling in that split second of a moment, but he knew that both his life and the creature's own life essence were part of the same roots. An inexplicable link that could be severed neither by space nor time. The creature slowly revealed itself as its tail slapped the eggshell out of its way; soft shining scales could be seen over the creature's body. The next moment the golden parasite blinked, disappearing from Fell's senses in a single moment. Shock appeared on Fell's face as he sensed the hazardous golden lightning disappearance. The dangerous lightning bolt wasn't anywhere on his body, and as he extended his senses in his surroundings he was surprised to find nothing in the large hall. His eyebrows rose as he saw Wind's battered figure lingering close to a wall. The impact could be clearly seen as he left a slight impact on the wall he had been sent into.
"Crap… I should have been safer", he thought before focusing back on the task. He focused his senses on the inexplicable link that existed between him and the golden parasite, and soon enough he managed to find the newborn. The golden parasite had left its shell, and it flew straight under the sea of clouds in the sky of New Casablanca. The newborn energy-based life form looked tenderly at the cloud filled with Heaven and Earth energy and released several chirps in a row as if asking for food from its mother. The creature's soft watery eyes were firmly locked on the cloud, and a small forked tongue could be seen flashing out of its small mouth.
Then the little creature's mouth opened, and a terrifying suction made its appearance in the sky of the New Casablanca. Everybody who has been paying attention to this matter saw the appearance of the black hole like suction. The air current turned visible under the compression of the air, and the Heaven and Earth energy that filled the clouds was sucked out of the cloud in an instant. It was as if the little creature had a straw that was made for sucking Spatial Energy. In a few breaths, the potency of the Heaven and Earth energy in the clouds was reduced to less than half of what it was earlier.
Joyful chirps were released from its little mouth as it lost itself in enjoying its first meal; the bright scales on its petite body glowed as the little parasite sucked on the cloud in front of it. As the potency of Heaven and Earth energy was being reduced, it fully plunged into the sea of clouds and began swimming in the middle of them. Fell didn't have anyone to see the scene but he could feel that the little parasite was being strengthened at a fast rate. He could especially feel the potency of Heaven and Earth energy in his surroundings diminish at a ridiculous speed. "What a glutton…", he thought as he didn't expect that the little snake wouldn't leave him any energy for his breakthrough.
"Guess it'll be for next time…", he thought as he used the leftover energy to fill his Dantian. In the end, he never had the opportunity to store energy in his Dantian as the golden parasite would immediately absorb anything that passed close by. He sat back on the floor after checking Wind's condition, then began absorbing the leftover Heaven and Earth energy that was leftover in the hall. Thin streams of energy made their way toward him and entered his body through his lung and pores; the streams of energy then passed through his enlarged meridian and began cycling inside of his energy paths.
"Although due to the golden parasite, my Dantian is still in a very nascent state, my meridian had served as my energy storage due to that. I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the rare cases that had to go through that… But I'm also pretty sure that there aren't many energy cultivators with meridian that through this much tempering at an early state in their cultivation journey", he assessed his current situation while making the energy cycle through his meridian several times in a row.
Time passed quietly under his focused state and a few minutes after, he faced the first problem that was caused by his odd condition. His enlarged meridian caused him to need much more energy than a first realm cultivator needed to access, and sadly he had already used the last pill that was made to help with a breakthrough. He was sure that those pills had been left for him to break through to the second realm of cultivation and weren't supposed to be used in the first realm Energy Condensation.
A pitiful look washed over his serious face as he began thinking about the clouds in the sky of New Casablanca. After a few seconds of thought, his head jerked right and left as he threw the idea out of his mind, "Definitely not fighting against a newborn for food…". But he knew that he had no chance to win an absorption contest with the little golden parasite. It had been shown several times in the past that the glutton couldn't be challenged when it came to his terrifying suction strength. And he had even used it as a weapon on several occasions; thus he could only take his time and clean up the leftover energy in the room. At least he had gotten his Dantian back and didn't need to store his energy in his meridian anymore.
Having cleared up his thought process, he continued his job of cycling the energy in his meridian. Soon enough, a pure and refined energy stream was running through his energy path. A satisfied look appeared on his face as he skillfully began making it dash toward his Dantian. He sighed joyfully as he could finally begin building his journey as an energy cultivator.