Chapter 403 - Returned

Upon arriving back at the location the Bombyx family were staying at, Ki sat down and told her parents about the events that had taken place.

Everything that happened on the mountain had yet to reach beyond those who had personally experienced it and those who had been deeply connected to them.

There was no way for anyone to find out what had happened so soon and it was likely that such events would be kept that way until everything was fully resolved.

There was some visible concern from Adam and Elizabeth who embraced their daughter who was caught up in such an event.

They had some confidence towards their daughter surviving many kinds of dangers but they still had many concerns.

They had rarely seen the extent of their daughter's abilities and had yet to experience the full display of them.

Even the fact that Ki had been on the very peak of the Transcendent Realm for years was something they were not aware of.

They were newly introduced to martial arts and the various realms so they did not know every detail related to where Ki stood in terms of power currently or the power they had cultivated themselves with her assistance.

Their interests lied elsewhere and they did not seek the same path as Ki so having a little power to defend themselves was already enough to make them satisfied.

They kept up daily training but did not undergo any strenuous activity that would put a large burden on their bodies.

It was something to be expected from those not interested in martial arts who did not have a great interest towards it too.

Their age played a major factor towards their latent talent and limitations so it would be very difficult for them to climb much higher even with greater efforts.

Due to their ignorance, they were unaware of the fact that Ki had long ago reached a state where the number of people in the world that could challenge or harm her was not very many.

She qualified as a top one hundred ranked martial artist in the Central Lands at a young age which was already a great feat yet she had just passed a major threshold in her martial arts path allowing her to step into the Unrestrained Realm.

The Unrestrained Realm was a major achievement for any martial artist which helped to distinguish most martial artists as those who were much less commonly found in each land unless they were being raised by larger influences with greater resources.

After calming her parents down and easing their worries about staying in the Northern Lands, Ki went to her room with Nova who had been retrieved from the mountain before being escorted down.

She was able to retrieve many of her possessions under the guidance of Darius Frost which had been returned back along with her.

Nova curled up her body nearby while Ki sat with her legs crossed.

She closed her eyes and circulated her energy through her body keeping her breathing in a constant rhythm she was familiar with from constant practice.

It did not take long before she entered a familiar state and immersed herself in her recent breakthrough and the energy flowing through her.

Due to constantly suppressing her breakthrough for years, her energy was far more abundant and refined compared to others that would have reached the same realm.

All that had been suppressed for so long finally settled peacefully in her Dantain and Pseudo Dantain which had both expanded slightly.

She may have had some time to settle down her energies within her and make use of her Qi methods to help refine and stabilise them after her breakthrough but it was not enough to handle all of what had built up for years.

If the state or quality of her Qi was that of a Transcendent Realm then what she needed was for all of her current Qi to reach a quality and state of the Unrestrained Realm.

It was like she had a large quantity of Qi that took up a lot of the base or foundation of her Dantain but if someone had a lower quantity and had a higher quality then it would show a major difference towards the overall output and usage of the Qi.

Ki was able to utilise Qi Shields and other methods that other Unrestrained Realm Martial Artists could using what she had refined in a short time but it was a little more demanding for Qi usage and was not nearly as stable or powerful as it should be.

The Qi had had been used up had already been gradually returning to her body filling in the areas that had previously been depleted as she continued to be in her current state.

Meanwhile the physical body was the same after her breakthrough, there was still much to be done in order to temper her body further allowing her previously tempered areas to begin stepping into their next realm of tempering along with the newly targeted area that is available to tempering further.

After spending a long time stabalising her current realm in a more relaxing environment without the need to stop or hurry in what she was doing, she was able to do so without interruptions allowing her to move onto tempering her body a little with her Blood Qi.