The shield was covered as an umbrella over the bowl, trapping him inside a circle. His first attempt was to physically attack the shield. He swing his arm and applied full strength through his muscled palm, but got a spontaneous repulsion, and a bruise on his palm above his wrist.
If not physically, then how is that shield going to break? What did the voice meant when it says to practice? He sat down back in the bowl. His bruised started burning, and he released that his senses are enhanced. He could feel every miniscule tease in his bruise. Trying to cope with the pain he was feeling with enhanced senses, his other hand naturally found it's way to cover the bruise, his teeth chewing his upper lips, and his eyes tightly closed. He unconsciously started cultivating again. As soon as his energy starts regulating from the depth of his heart to the body and back, he started feeling the ease. A few paces later, the pain subsided. He opened his eyes and takes a look on his palm. The skin was back to normal.
While he was examining his palm, the sun dawned upon him. The first stage of cultivation technique he followed was regulating internal energy, and draw power from within. He stretched his arms towards the shield, place his palm smoothly over it, and started regulating hin internal energy. Once the energy flow went from his heart to his hands, he felt the strength of the shield. He continued doing that until he analyse the power of the shield. Then he tried to generate the stronger strength of power to break it. The power generated like a rush of fire, as his blood was boiling. And the shield dissolves.
His excitement was over head on learning this out world magic, in this out of world place. He tried to get up, but he felt severe weakness in his body. The magic was costing him energy. He layed his head on the edge of the bowl. He closed his eyes to rest for a while. When he opened his eyes back, he found a silver dish full of unknown fruit laying by the side of the bowl. He extended his arm and brought the dish inside. He picked one of them, size of an olive, purple in colour. He took a tiny bite to taste. It was orange inside, and tasted like mint bubble gum. He felt a bit better with that, and grabbed three more. Them moment, those went down his throat, he started feeling regaining his strength. Now curious about what each of these fruit will do, he planned to taste them all. He picked the second one, it looked like a walnut. He broke it with his teeth, and there was a white jelly type substance inside. He shove it inside his mouth, it tasted nothing, just had jello texture. Once it was in, blood burning on fire calmed down. He felt like he will need this one more if he is going to use the magic, so put few of them in his pocket. He picked the third fruit, which looked something like three headed heart, the size of a peach. He took a bite and it tasted like salty pudding. He finished it and felt his stomach full, like he won't need any meals for two days.
Now he understood how it's gonna work. His body will need extra nutrition to support his elevated energy level. And he needs to practice his cultivation technique more to gain power. And use of magic will cost body energy. Understanding the criteria, he decided to spend more time in cultivating.
When he was comfortable enough, with his new ability, he stood up in the bowl.
"Congratulations! You have achieved the first stage of dragon warrior cultivation technique. The next stage will be available when you will have mastered the first stage." The same voice informed him.
Happy with his current status, he walked out of the bowl. He once again tried those doors, but all of them were closed for him. Then without wasting any further time, he headed towards the golden arch. He needs to get out of dungeon, and find a way home. He shouldn't be wasting much time here. He stepped into the dark hallway, and out of the arch. His dairy was laying beside the arch open. He remembers how last time it was the access of this world, and this time it is the access of dragon scroll. He wasn't quite sure how this ancient dairy works. So he decided to mark this page, so he can remember next time when he needs to access the scroll. He search around the dungeon for something to write with. Finally he found a yellow stone from the dungeon floor. He rubbed the stone on the floor, and it turned into gritty yellow powder. It should be enough to write dragon scroll on the page of the dairy. He put his pinky finger in the powder, and wrote on the open page of the dairy. It was messy, but at least he will be able to search it back next time. He moved around to take more powder, and when he returned, the mark on the dairy was vanished.
"What? How am I going to remember which page is for what, if I can't write on it? I already have to figure out which will be the way back to home."
Confused staring on the blank page of dairy, the idea came to him. Why not to try marking it with the help of his magic. He placed his hand on the page, started regulating his energy, and then focused on driving the power to mark the page as dragon scroll. When he opened his eyes, the results weren't quite what he expected. It worked, but not in the way he thought of. There was a brown inked scroll picture with a dragon drawing on it in the middle. The texture felt more like burned encarveing rather than writing. The use of magic have drained him again. He took out one of the walnut looking fruit immediately to calm his burning sensation. Now he have to work again with cultivation to regain his power before figuring out how to escape these dungeons. He closed the dairy and dragged his weak body to the wall of dungeon to start his cultivation back. It took him almost two ours before he came back to shape. Now the time is to search for the way to escape. He walked towards the grilled gate. Sense the shield. He ran his hand around the grill and the walls to determine the length of the shield. He have to rest a bit more before starting the process. He can't drain himself completely, or how will he ran from here. He sat by the wall for the rest, and then get to work after a few minutes. He started sensing the power of the shield, it was more powerful than what he had in the trail. But nothing like he won't be able to break. But that will come with more cost.