As Will approached the market, although he could tell that he could not sense everyone's emotions very well, he was excited, because for the first time ever, he had a plan for his next course of action. Although it was not a very well made plan, it was still his first one and therefore excited him to be following it.
When he got to the market, he quickly found a corner and sat down. There were, of course, people who were curious as to what he was doing, but they did not say anything as he was simply an outer disciple not worthy of their attention. After all, most of them had been outer disciples as well and were simply too old to be a disciple anymore. Instead, they stayed in the sect and would be the main portion of the sect until they grew old and died.
As Will sat there sensing the emotions that he could, time passed quickly and those who were interested in what he was doing had all gone. Shortly, another four hours had gone by and it was now night time. As it was night, everyone had gone and there was no longer anyone in the market place. As such, there was no longer any reason for Will to remain there, so he left and went back to his little house in the outer disciples area.
He had recovered most of his heart's power at this point and could cultivate again. As he went back to his disciple house, nobody saw him. It was as if everyone had simply vanished, but Will knew that it was because almost everyone in the sect was asleep. After all, he had never even heard of someone who did not need sleep. He was the exception. The only ones still awake at that point were the few guards who were left to patrol at night and make sure that there were no intruders or thieves within the sect.
When he finally got back to his house, he immediately took off the cloak and sat down to cultivate. This time, he knew that he had a chance to breakthrough because he was already immensely close to breaking through when he had been brought to the sect, let alone after an entire session of cultivation.
At that moment, there was a low pounding sound that rang out in the room, and it would be audible to those in the room, but it did not travel any further. In the middle of the room, Will sat with his wings stretched out wide like a sovereign angel. The wings were colored like pearl, but seemed to be dipped in blood at the ends with the entire bottom third of the wings being deep red like scarlet flaming blood. There were two strands of qi which were floating around him, forming into a helix and going into his body through his wrist. There was only one helix because of the suppression of the qi in the environment, but it was strengthened quite a lot as well and made up for the lack of number of helixes.
As the qi entered his body, Will could feel that he was ready to break through to the second thread of the spirit realm. As such, he mobilized all the accumulated qi of hope in his body. Inside his body, he could sense that there was a very faint pool. This pool was full of inner breath of calmness. Next to it was a much smaller pool of qi of hope. Both were surrounded by a faint capsule that seemed to hold them. This was the source of his inner breath and accumulated qi. Connecting the two capsules was a thin tunnel. This tunnel was the broken barrier from when he broke into the spirit realm. There was also a tunnel leading out from the capsule of qi of hope into another completely empty capsule, but this tunnel could not be accessed because the capsule for the inner breath of hope had a smaller capsule within it that contained the qi of hope, and this smaller capsule would need to be broken to allow Will to access the bottleneck to break into the next thread of the spirit realm.
In other words, in order to break into the next thread of the spirit realm, Will would have to not only break the smaller capsule within the large capsule meant for the inner breath of hope, but he would also have to break through the barrier in the thin tunnel going into the next capsule to hold the qi of anger. As such, with one breakthrough, he would break two barriers. First he would transform his qi of hope into inner breath of hope and use that to break the smaller capsule allowing the new inner breath of hope to flood into the larger capsule. Then he would use the newly acquired inner breath of hope to break down the barrier in the tunnel going to the next smaller capsule to use for gathering the qi of anger.
As such, his process of breaking through was much more complicated than the normal cultivator as a normal cultivator would only have a large capsule in the first place and they would only continuously gather inner breath to enlarge that capsule enabling them to gather more strands of inner breath, whereas Will had eighteen different sized capsules of which nine would be broken through while the rest were connected to each other. It truly was several times more complicated and intricate, with each part being crucial.
As he moved all the qi of hope that he had gathered, he fiercely slammed it against the small capsule trying to break through it, but he felt as if the weak looking capsule was made of steel, as if it was unbreakable. However, he continued to use all his qi to slam against the capsule violently again and again. He did this a total of one hundred times before he finally saw some progress. At once, an infinitesimally small tear appeared in the solid capsule, but the moment it did, the tear began to grow at an alarming pace before it finally tore the entire capsule into pieces. The moment the smaller capsule collapsed, Will could feel that the qi of hope was going through a drastic change. However, he knew that it was simply turning into inner breath as he had experienced the same thing with the inner breath of calmness turning into inner breath of calmness.
After a few moments, the qi of hope had all changed into inner breath of hope, but Will knew that he was not done breaking through yet. Without him even intentionally moving it, the inner breath of hope started moving towards the small tunnel at the side of the capsule. It suddenly started violently smashing against the barrier in the tunnel. Although the barrier was much smaller than the capsule, it was much tougher than the capsule that the qi had broken through. Luckily though, the qi of hope had transformed into inner breath, and it was many times stronger. In a few minutes of smashing, the barrier finally developed a crack and collapsed, leading way to the new open small capsule for the qi of anger to reside in.
At that moment, Will had finally broken through to the second thread of the spirit realm. However, it had used much of the power of his heart to move the qi and inner breath so much, which lead to him being exhausted. He quickly fell to his side and into a deep slumber. When he fell asleep, the pounding sound stopped and all fell silent in the house. The next moment, a thin mist of bright red formed around Will, like a seemingly harmless but malevolent fire. However, it was so thin that it was barely noticeable and no one would be able to see it unless they looked closely.