After laying silent for a long time when Zash opened his eyes he saw Sylphia staring at him.
"What's up?" He asked
" Nothing you just remind me of a few silly Buddhist monks from a few time back. Especially when you have that peaceful tranquil expression on your face," said Sylphia.
" Oh ~ there are monks in this world as well ? "
" Yes there are and from many races too, they don't differentiate, live off a decent life, don't like to harm nature and other people and some are strange but good nonetheless it's pretty hard to believe the world still have some sanity left ". Sylphia said
"You know the first person to have attained Godhood was a Buddhist monks who was a king who left his own kingdom gaining enlightenments within a forest and defeated devils and finally ascended setting an example for us humans, for he was without any guidances, by himself made his own path to ascenction. Even I admire him but the most important part is that he inspired Buddhism by inspiring many others."
Many good monks adopted orphans, converted many convict's life to a better path and always wanted the betterment of the world, bearing no I'll will towards any living beings. It's a honourable choice of living just not feasible as in this cruel unless you aren't strong enough the greedy will take advantage of you while you will die of doing good deeds. But nothing's perfect in the first place, we are not to judge how others live their Life" said Zash to Sylphia and got to work.
He first dug up the group around the springs and made a big house sized crater for the three of them, then made Quantombots till the limit his of his mana and formed them in to surround the pond after making one and set a few runes and arrays for distillation and collection of Essense.
At the later stages not just essense will be enough for helping them at the later stages they'd need every form of mana and rare herbs too to ease up the process or they can just ignore it all and just focus on developing slowly.
Zash chose to not rush it but still held on about the Small Swimming pool He had made which took him a whole 3-4 weeks and the results were obvious as the pond started collecting essence, mana and Sylphia's excess energy all together which once again surprised the girls to see such a container which collected the purest form of energy from around them and they could tell that it was something good .
Zash explained that after the core Foundation stage, comes Element Ruler which in turn makes any form of energy absorption useful and if need be converts excess mana into Essense which stunned them both. As they'd had come to realize how rare Essense was now to know that they themselves can convert mana into Essense was a news too good to be true.
The only obstacle being the bottleneck of Core Formation's last stage which was harder and time consuming to overcome even for the girls as this was a Major step and couldn't be rushed at all.
After 900 years of releasing their internal energy constantly once more till the island was covered in fog of energy once again and the pool too was full to a quarter and had liquid mana and essence energies along with a few unknown strands of energy completely foreign to Sylphia, Zash and Serena as well. They want to try it out but knew patience was virtue and couldn't imagine how drastically the pool may help them increase in strength.
After having a feeling that this much was enough and they should focus on Cultivation and break through their bottleneck Zash and the girls sat in a triangular pattern having their backs again one another.
This process could not be rushed and they both were connected to Zash and shared equal energy and Zash being their medium of control and guidance kept helping them throughout the while and slowly but steadily they built their foundations sturdier by each passing day. (Maybe the most stable foundations anyone from both this world or his previous world had ever seen before)
At the same time another 1000 years flew by and the trio could sense breakthrough approaching and with the 3 of them going through it at the same time they had caused a major commotion on the island as even monsters, animals and even insects were amazed and fearful of the surge of power coming from them.( It causes a major commotion in the seas as well as a huge tidal wave swept away into the sea and crashed into the mainland sea across a few Lakh kilometres. Raising more havoc in the already unstable world.)
"Phew*~~~ I'm so tired that was nearly 1700 years of constant focus on Cultivation and nothing else taking into account of our releasing of energy previously. That's it, we should rest let's release our energies minutely as we are still stabilising our foundations as of yet. Remember to take it easy and relax." Said Zash calmly and tired as he was he moved to the deeper end of the springs and checked the swimming pool half pool with energies which he estimated should be about full of they release their newfound power later as they had 2× or more the amount of energy they could perform previously.
" Remember while the previous stage focuses on your core this stage focuses on your body's improvement and makes it harder and self-sustainable similar to your healing properties Sylphia. The pond will fill up in about a few years time along with my meridians close to 70% recovery it seems we can improve ourselves again soon for now let's watch some anime and movies." Said Zash
And the girls complied as they knew that if he says so it's true and they too were tired after such a long while of hard work. At the same time they both looked at each other and had an inside conversation with each other.
( It's been only a few thousand years but it feels so different with Zash it's not a bad feeling though it's a pleasant type of good.
Before Zash a few Millenia seemed easy to pass upon but after getting to know him even days seem comparable to years worth of time. ) It's a feeling they never wanted to ever end and wanted to accompany Zash throughout his journeys wherever he was as a group and thaught
"As long as we're together we'll see who hold us back with being besides him"
( It wasn't just due to his benifits had they been attracted to Zash but along with his personality which fit with them perfectly like icing on a cake, the way he treated them both and always showed his full support for each of them he even gave a wish box to Serena which made a perfect gift. He was overall an ideal candidate for marriage and at this stage with just this little thousand years worth of time which seemed laughable to them, considering their lifetime spent alone seemed the longest and the most pleasant time of their life, it was like they were already a perfect Family at this point and wanted nothing else to change but the both of them swore to wholeheartedly support his decisions and help him throughout his journey and be a part of his life. )
At first the girls were somewhat afraid of this feeling, later they accepted it and now it felt completely natural.
And after thinking things through they both smiled and nodded and went to his side and watched some shows, went to sleep and for the next hundred years had a blast and played various games like be ping-pong and table tennis, hockey and badminton and any thing which caught the girls attention. ( Leaving chess aside with their big brains and knowledge it took days and sometimes months for their matches to end, as such it was out of the question)
Zash tried playing with real table tennis while the ball bursted with the energy within along with leaving scorch marks in air as if a missile had launched and left it's trail.
Leaving things aside and sticking to virtual table tennis other similar sporte along with many other varieties do playable games which he played while staying in the Springs along with All time Musical Hits of the years. A full on Degenerat- {TEEN LIFESTYLE}
Which they enjoyed for a whole 300 years and finally had it easy along with Zash gaining +700 Hidden Attributes points in all hidden attributes it helped his personality development along with his brain function improvement by 20 % than before
Sylphia too had gained many titles along with each level up in cultivation the most bugged being { ENHANCED PROGENITOR: To every Dragon in vicinity alongside you gains 25% increase in attributes along with 25% Decrease to all enemy Dragons within your vicinity.} Now that was completely broken considered the fact that it was Dragons they were talking about rather than other species just a normal one can match a dragon's 20 % power while many surpassing 100% existed among dragons along with this skill combined even Higher god's won't dare to go against her and be on her bad side. Power, Stability, Home And Knowledge along with Technology. Their enemies had only DEATH awaiting for them if they decided to mess with the trio.
The only question was will they avoid such fate ? Will the world become aware of this threath they may unleash upon themselves and jepordizing the whole world at stake ? Only time can tell.