As Will delved into these techniques, he noticed that the strands of inner breath could be used in ways nearly identical to how he cultivated with the red and pearl qi. However, the difference was that inner breath came from within the body going out whereas he cultivated with the qi coming into his body from outside.
Because of his background with using the qi, he quickly understood the techniques and ended up fully understanding them with only a few hours time.
With the techniques that Old Man Dai had given him, were some books containing information on breaking through to the spirit realm. However, all of these were of no use to Will since none of the issues in them were what was causing his bottleneck. This greatly disappointed him, but there was nothing he could do about it, so he did not react further.
This was simply Will's mentality. If there was nothing to be done, then do nothing. And that was exactly what he did. There was no use complaining about it or in trying to change it when it was simply not possible.
With this, he decided to get up and stretch. After all, he had been sitting still for many days in a row and was starting to get sore.
The first thing he did as he stood up was stretch his wings. After all, it was extremely uncomfortable to sit down with them as they were longer than his torso and had to be awkwardly stretched in order for him to sit down.
Following that, he went into the washroom and took another bath, in which the hot water relaxed his sore body and helped him to calm down and think. He stayed there relaxed for a few hours before finally coming out. During this time, he had spent his time trying to sense the emotions of princess Kessia, who was in the other room. He was unsuccessful, however, but he was not discouraged.
As was his mentality, being annoyed about failure would only bring more failure in the future. Instead, he chose to learn from his failure and get better so that he could eventually succeed.
He had learned how to control his heart well so that it wouldn't boom when it beat, but now it was quieter even than a normal heart, and when it beat, his sensitivity to emotion soared ever more. With this, he could sense Kessia's emotions even all the way across the room, but he could not manage to sense it from another room yet.
Following this routine of meditating and taking a soothing bath each day, a half month went by quickly. During this time, Will felt no difference in his bottleneck, but he was still not discouraged.
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Far away, on the outskirts of the Scorching Sun kingdom, there was a battle taking place.
In this battle, was the king of the Scorching Sun kingdom and a woman. This woman looked at him with hatred in her eyes, but she ultimately could not defeat him.
Her clothes were burned all over and some of her skin had been singed black.
However, at this moment, she revealed a wicked smile, saying, "My dear husband, it's truly unfortunate that you found out. However, it changes nothing. You will still die!!!" she said while laughing like a crazy person. This woman was evidently the queen of the Scorching Sun kingdom and Kessia's mother, Queen Xenia.