He was first going to focus on his body and cultivation, after talking to Jia Li in another little talk when he was done training his body he realized that cultivators highly respected strength.
If he gave off the appearance and the aura of being strong he could most likely deter people from attempting to attack him. He also realized that his knowledge and experience problem would be solved partly through Jia Li's expert lessons .
He also found that if his foundation was strong enough he could attempt to fix his current martial arts later.
He was currently still thinking of ways to modify his body through different ways of cultivating. His most active suggestion was combining blade aura together and using it instead to cultivate his body.
However, he didn't immediately jump on this option because blade aura was meant to be a cultivation technique and combining a body tempering technique with those meant for cultivation was still hard to wrap his head around.
He also wanted to see if a different stance or exuding physical pressure onto his body would do him better at cultivating his body. He didn't like the thought that cultivators could just sit down and cultivate their body like that.
His thoughts continued to race for some time until he felt something gentle touch his gut, He kept his eyes closed and he could slightly imagine a butterfly with beautiful blue colored rings filled with the dark midnight sitting down on his stomach.
The butterfly slowly turned into a cat rubbing its head up and down his gut which made his eyelids twitch with pleasure from the little massage that he was receiving.
After resting for half a minute he opened his eyes to see Jia Li leaning over him, her hand placed on his gut, her emotionless face held a gentle rose that spread to her cheeks, her eyes turned downturn like the thorns to her rose colored cheeks that pierced his chest.
Seeing Jia Li like this surprised him and he tightened his body, which caused Jia Li to startle and look toward his own embarrassed face.
"Uh..Is it time to do the breakthrough?" He attempted to switch the topic immediately, he didn't not like the situation but it was too embarrassing for him to continue on forward.
Jia Li turned timid and her voice turned to a whisper "Y-Yes."
Jia Li sat on his bed while Zu Dai was now sitting in front of her on his pillow, "Relax your eyes." Jia Li's voice echoed through the extremely silent room.
His tight eyelids relaxed slightly and he felt something warm touch his head and he immediately knew it was Jia Li "Relax yourself just like you're cultivating." He followed her orders to the peak and immediately relaxed his body.
Zu Dai wasn't scared or anything he tightened his entire due to expectation and the greed that stemmed from behind his dantain.
Zu Dai slowly closed his eyes.
He felt the world around him go dark, a shadow entwining itself into the very fabric of his skin that slowly extended outward.
The warmth of Jia Li's hand vanished and what remained was his greed that went wild, it almost forced him to break his concentration to retain it in its place with his mind.
He saw the little solid qi that was at the bottom of the pool that he had made for his dantain began to focus. It ascended the other liquid qi and was brought out into the air within his dantain.
Jia Li's instructions repeated inside of his mind 'Every bottleneck is different, find yours and you will survive.' however he was constantly being tempted by his greed.
He didn't know what it wanted to do but each time even a slip of it went out he felt primal impulses attempt to guide him, he then instantly remembered the pain he felt when he placed his hand over his dantain and used his mind to stop his greed from pouring out.
The dark shadow entwined inside of his skin threatened to untwine and leave him. He pushed his mind there and made it stay there.
After what felt like forever, for him the solid qi that was above the pool of liquid qi grew at an unpredescent speed and he felt his body shake attempting to pull him.
He resisted at first but his split mental focus forced him to be pulled, he felt something warm touch his eyes.
He didn't want to open his eyes but the warmth turned warmer with each passing breath that he took. The warmth turned hot .
Hot turned into pain which bore hot tears that dripped down his face, he then heard a pitter patter he raised his hand from his lotus position curious what was happening and barely touching his cheek he realized that his tears had reached a volume at which they were pouring down.
He then opened his eyes and saw the vast ocean embrace him, and what stood in front of him was the solid qi focused into a ball.
He felt impulses guide him and he raised his hand in an attempt to grab the solid ball, it shot toward his hand.
He kept his hand raised and felt the ball make a soft impact against his palm. He then clenched his fist and the ball returned back to drop of a darker liquid that poured from either side of his clenched fist.
When the dark liquid touched the sea it turned solid instantly making the vast sea into a desolate wasteland. He felt a power engulf his dantain and he broke concentration however he didn't leave the place.
The greed got out and surged forth touching the sea slightly and making it a darker color than what it was supposed to be, making the desolate wasteland denser and dark…
He wanted to stop the greed however, he stopped and allowed it to do what it wanted.
He wanted to stop it however, his vision went black.