Glistening and drenched in a warm sweat, Lucas wobbles around the room uncontrollably. "Uhm... my palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on my sweater already, mom's spaghetti... what's with me?"
Hearing Lucas' goofy predicament, Harrison immediately understands that while Lucas may be in True Spirit Realm now, he is also in an unstable state. "Wait! Stay there, you're unstable. I'll go get temporary foundation stabilizers for you." With that, Harrison bolts out into the hallways, leaving behind a limp Lucas.
While he isn't in pain, Lucas is still feeling awful. It's almost like someone dragged out his organs while he was fast asleep and replaced them with replicas. He groans at his nonexistent control on his body. A while later, his vision started to blur. It was slow at first, but quickly worsened. Well, that's what happened before Harrison forcefully shoved a pill down Lucas' throat.
*cough cough*
"AHH! That tasted horrible!" *cough* "At least I feel better now." Lucas screamed at the foul taste of the pill.
"The herbalist in our building ran out of normal pills, so she rushed to concoct one. It might taste worst due to the speed of her making it. You will be better for a few hours. Quickly form a solid foundation or you'll explode." Harrison reminded Lucas about his weak foundation. Even if he has the pills, it won't be permanent.
Sitting down comfortably on a soft and firm tatami mat made specifically for cultivating the qi in the air, Lucas gets into a good position and closes his eyes.
--- [ Within Lucas' Mind ] ---
'It seems the foundation is stuck at 7th Nascent Spirit. I have to bring that up to True Spirit somehow... but the qi in this building seems to be higher quality than in the hotel and the pill store I went to. That's neat'
- Visual of Lucas' Dantian -
[1st True Spirit] - Top Layer
[9th Nascent Soul] - High Layer
[9th Nascent Soul] - Middle Layer
[8th Nascent Soul] - Lower Layer
[7th Nascent Soul] - Bottom Layer
- End of Visual -
For the next 8 hours, Lucas perfectly refines the several stacked layers of his Dantian. How one does this is simple. Just like normal cultivation, which increases the top of the layers of qi, this increases the bottom layer instead, allowing for higher capacity. Each strand/particle of qi can contribute to a larger layer. Reaching the limit of his stabilization. He once again takes a look at his Dantian:
- Visual of Lucas' Dantian -
[1st True Spirit] - Top Layer
[9th Nascent Soul] - High Layer
[9th Nascent Soul] - Middle Layer
[1st True Spirit] - Lower Layer
[1st True Spirit] - Bottom Layer
- End of Visual -
'That should be good enough!' Lucas thinks as he exits his cultivation.
--- [ POV: Narrator ] ---
Waking up into the night, Lucas rubs his heavy eyes as he tells Harrison, "I stabilized my foundation." Lucas was on the verge of sleeping. After all, cultivating is energy taxing beyond belief. Right now, he just wanted to flop onto the floor and get some shut eye.
"It's okay if you're tired, go ahead and sleep here. This is my personal training ground, so you don't have to worry that you will be in trouble. I'll get going now." Harrison started to hastily pack up everything fast but also silently because he didn't want to disturb Lucas. Harrison also knew tomorrow was going to be a fun ride with his new apprentice.