They rushed in like a group of hungry children released from school, swarming towards the canteen windows.
They needed to eat. They were growing.
The 'Radiation' also needed to feed; it needed to grow too.
But what the 'Radiation' consumed was Ji Xinghe's body.
"Refining essence into Qi?"
That phrase, long circulated in the Dragon Continent, seemed most apt here.
Being in isolation, Ji Xinghe's daily nutritional intake was always at the highest tolerable level for his current physical state. Otherwise, his body would have given up by now.
"Couldn't possibly be refining 'Qi' into 'spirit', refining 'spirit' into 'void', and then refining 'void' into 'Tao', right?"
Ji Xinghe, who hadn't seen significant improvement over a long period, started fantasizing. But he quickly dismissed such thoughts.
Prince Aida Kang was already considered one of the strongest among the Apes in the empire with the power of 'Qi'.