"Haha, it did in fact teleport with you."
"What?"
"Don't worry, I took care of it."
"Where is it?"
"It's in the pot."
"The pot?"
"Yeah, the pot, we are cooking it today haha."
"Sigh." Nameless sighed, he had barely just entered the world, to him Yugo appeared more and more unfathomable, a contrast to his aloof and light-hearted attitude.
"Well, atleast I survived."
He paused for a few moments internalising everything before continuing : "You said before that animas' numbers have substantially increased, then how will I gather beast cores now?"
"Mm, I can go with you if you want."
"Really?" Nameless spoke with suspicion.
"Why? you doubt me?" Yugo laughed.
"I just don't see any incentive for you to help me."
"Kid, we are not as corrupt as humans. If I wanted to use you or exploit you, I'd be upfront about it and there would be nothing you can do about it."
"But then why are you helping me?"
"Why not?"
Nameless was slightly suprised.
Yugo looked at him as he spoke : "Your body is a peak rank 3 body but without a rank 3 dantian it's as good as nothing, what's the point of having a stronger body if you can't fuel it? Just running away for a few hours from the raptorian vulture made you exhaust all your energy. You have no spells to use your sea of consciousness, no cultivation technique to absorb the Qi of the world. You are as good as nothing. Even a rank 2 cultivator has a better foundation since they have cultivation techniques and their centers of powers are close to each other rank. You are useless to me. This does not mean that you don't have potential, your potential simply speaking is immense, just a cultivator that can transform without killer moves nor animas and without any spells is against the laws of this world, your have great potential but also great obstacles to overcome."
"I understand."
Nameless paused for a second before continuing : "How can I solve these problems then? I don't have much knowledge about this world. Do you have any suitable 'cultivation' techniques for me?"
"We are minimen, we don't have many human cultivation techniques, your body is special as well so I wouldn't recommend using normal techniques."
"Then what can I even do?!" Nameless spoke slightly dumbfounded.
"Let's start by what's needed, what's urgent right now is a body cultivation technique so you don't run out of energy so prematurely. For your rank there are two types. First, a technique that can absorb Qi from the environment and supply it to the meridians nourishing the body through it. Second, a technique that has the same process but uses the energy in your dantian."
"I can't use the second, I can only use the first for now, it seems."
"That's right, I can give you a body cultivation technique to absorb Qi directly from the environment for your body, but there is a possibility it won't work or might even cause harm."
'Fuck, what can I even do about this.'
Nameless sank into his thoughts trying to figure out any kind of solution to this problem but he couldn't find any even after thinking for minutes about everything he had learned till now.
"Let's just go with one of your techniqu-
As he spoke, Nameless was suddenly dumbstruck, he immediately removed his robe and turned to show his back to Yugo.
"Would this work?"
Yugo looked at his back, at nine acupoints in his spine, nine faint purple marks existed.
Yugo moved his divine sense throughly analysing his body.
"Were those made by the Tree of eternal life?"
"Yeah."
"Then yes, it would work."
"Great!"
"But..."
"But what?"
"Those nine acupoint have been closed, I would need to reopen them again, and that will be extremely painful."
Nameless spoke while gritting his teeth : "I understand, just do it anyway."
He knew that if even Yugo said that it would be painful, it would. Not forgetting the pain he had to go through while removing the purple dao marks on his sea of consciousness.
Nameless wanted to relent but knowing he had but a few years of lifespan, he had to gritt his teeth and go through it.
"It's much harder than you think, the moment you lose your consciousness, I will have to close back the holes and restart again."
"I understand, I'm willing to go through it."
"You don't understand anything."
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that it's impossible for you to succeed on the first try, opening those nine acupoints that deep into your body is just the first step. The difficult part is staying conscious to be able to keep them open so that the Qi in the environment reconstructs them. If this succeed then body will be able absorb Qi automatically, without conscious effort."
Nameless thought about it for a few moments before he was shocked : "That would be amazing! I would be able to use the full potential of my body and never ran out of energy!"
"Kid, these are only the advantages, wait for the drawbacks. First, your body will fall from a peak rank 3 peak body into a regular rank 3 body, of course, all the characteristics and special abilities of your body will remain. Second, you will have to stay conscious during the entire process to keep the reformed acupoints in place, I can't numb you, you will have to feel the acupoints as they are forming, this is also the third and main drawback, if you fall unconscious, I will have to restart a part of the process from the beginning."
"From the beginning?!"
"That's right, if I open two acupoints and you go unconscious, I will have to close back those two acupoints and wait for you to recover before I reopen them again. The process will be three acupoints at a time."
"So not only will my body becomes less powerful but if I fail to stay conscious, I will have to go to the same painful process again and again?!"
"Not only that, there is also the possibility of your lifespan lowering, more energy means a faster metabolism that can exert more power and bring more of the body's potential to fruition. Absorbing such huge amount of Qi constantly might speed up the body and lower lifespan but it will also increase your power by leaps and bounds. I can give you a more tame and normal technique if you don't want to."
"No, let me do it. I may not even survive after I leave this forest, I must increase my survival chance."
Nameless paused before continuing : "Will it increase the power of my transformations?"
"Yes, it will, even now you are still running on the remaining energy of the immortal fetus, at some point you will be overcome by great hunger as the need to get as much energy as possible manifests, you will need to constantly constantly get energy just to survive."
"I see, then I have no choice."
Nameless thought for a few moments before touching the spots on his back and asking : "What are these marks? I remember there were tube-like things penetrating on these spots when I had just awakened."
Yugo thought for a big before he answered : "It seems there purpose was to feed the body enough energy and Qi to heal it and maintain it, that's why such a body-cultivation technique is even possible to begin with. It seems major traces were left in your body with the power to absorb a huge amount of energy, if I just open them and they are reconstructed properly using Qi, they will be able to absorb Qi constantly without effort even while you are asleep."
"There was such a thing! then there is no room for hesitation. When will be starting?"
"Take some time to rest first. Your mind has probably been tired from the chase, you need to be at your top condition and even that might not be enough, don't expect to succeed on the first few tries. This might take months."
"Months?!"
"Yes, ranging from a month to five depending on your effort and disposition."
"What's the name of the technique?"
"A name? it has no name, there was however a demonic technique that worked similary but required a lot of sacrifices, it was named "Blood Veil Qi infusion". Since it's a very similar process, lets name this technique : "Purple Veil Qi infusion" refering to the purple spots left on your back."
"But the Guardians might chase me, the will told me that activating the teleportation formation will alert them, let alone the fact that the forest will become more dangerous."
"Don't worry about the teleportation, the will has already sent a message explaining that it was used to protect you and ensure you are investigated in more depth. The fact that animas are spawning in such shocking numbers is a bigger threat to their order than you teleporting one of the countless formation set in places."
"I see, thanks for what you're doing."
"Don't worry about it. First, I will help you gather beast cores then you will back to your birthplace and advance your dantian and then I will open the acupoints on your back."
"Perfect!" Nameless enthusiastically spoke. Danger was inevitable but atleast he had a plan for survival, even if it was difficult and painful, alteast there was a chance, a small hope to survive.
"But first..."
"The banquet!" Yugo enthusiastically spoke.
"It's finished, tribe leader." At this very moment, Flobo ended his dissection of the giant beast.
"Hehe, this will the greatest meal in the history of great meals!" Yugo fervently spoke.
"Let's start you bastards!" Yugo passionately spoke as he got on the rock and spoke to the minimen salivating at the raw flesh of the beast in front of them.
"Let's goooo!" All the minimen be it the male or female, jumped in the air in celebration, awaiting for Yugo to cook the meal of their life.