Noa had left the sli to see what would happen after it basked in a strong amount of qi.
The binding room worked on beasts.
So he wanted to test if the sli would be affected by it.
As Umbu lay in his spot, belly up and tail moving around uncontrollably, he neared the second cocoon.
The sli—or at least what remained of it—sat silently.
When he had seen it the last ti, it was just a blob of mass containing all seven elents.
It even absorbed qi just like Umbu.
Now, this was no longer the case.
At first, the sli trembled under his gaze, each elent stirring in colorful layers—fire, water, wind, lightning, earth, shadow, and ether.
Its shape looked almost unchanged.
However, Noa noticed that it seed fuller, with a tinge of energy moving around its surface.
The elents.
The energy...
It couldn’t contain any more. It was leaking power.
Qi flowed in and out of the sli like it was nothing, forming what looked like an eternal qi river with infinite energy.
Umbu wasn’t blind to this phenonon either.
He, while continuing to devour two different energies, looked at Noa.
Then he pointed his tiny claws at the sli, as if announcing, "Look what that bastard is doing!"
Noa chuckled at his reaction.
But his eyes didn’t leave the sli, narrowing to better read the situation.
"It’s... It’s evolved," he muttered.
Seeing the sli in its current condition, Noa finally understood what benefits it could bring to him and his store.
First and foremost, it actually operated like a qi river.
The sli excluded potent, clean qi and could increase the cultivation speed.
Prolonged exposure to its effects would naturally refine the body.
Noa wasn’t an exception.
He, too, would be affected by it, and though slowly, his body would still gain more vigor and health.
It wasn’t like a cultivation.
Just qi influencing his body from the outside, without even touching his ridians.
[Allow ,] the system decided to chi in.
Noa nodded, knowing that it could explain better than he could guess.
[Your idea of its first use is correct. But there is so much more. The sli can be a chaotic qi collector to refine it into usable qi across all elents.]
He was listening attentively when the system paused.
It was drawing words from sowhere, speaking slowly with a familiar robotic voice.
Yet the improvent was still there.
And each ti it conveyed sothing, Noa was overwheld with a weird sense that he was conversing with soone with a sound mind.
It no longer felt like a chanical entity.
And it continued explaining
[Prolonged exposure to the sli’s leaked power would lead to harmonizing conflicting elents within one’s body. That’s not all. It can also act like a mobile qi battery and power small chambers and constructions.]
"Like a power supply," Noa said. "But with every elent."
The system had no ans to nod at his words, but it didn’t argue, agreeing silently.
[Cultivators can drink the power he leaks to awaken their dormant bloodline or enhance an already existing elental affinity. However, it won’t stop with humans.
Items soaked in its qi may mutate or evolve, and it’s up to you how you turn that into profit.]
As the system completed its long explanation, Noa stared at the sli.
Everything he had just heard proved how useful this little creature could be for him and his business.
He would be dumb not to use this opportunity.
But as a tycoon, he had no intention of killing the golden goose for a day’s worth of at.
He would squeeze money out of the sli.
However, he would do it moderately.
Noa wasn’t so emotionless being who would torture this adorable sli just for him to fatten his wallet.
It was already leaking enough energy as it was.
There was no need for him to use it like a slave.
So he extended his hand to touch the sli, expecting a familiar coldness with it. To his surprise, more than one sensation assaulted his fingers.
Yes, the coldness was there.
But it was only part of the whole picture.
The warmth?
It was also there but the sli stung his every other receptor as well, sending pulsing waves through his every bone.
"What the?!" Noa could only exclaim.
Yet, instead of stopping, he extended his other hand.
Sli, with its blobby texture, covered his fingers.
Now it was ti for him to experience brand new sensations, as his eyelids began to tremble in colors.
One for each elent that flowed from his fingers to his blood.
Of course, they couldn’t reach his unawakened core, stopping because of his clogged ridians and dissipating without a trace.
"What was that?" Noa asked himself and the system.
[That’s weird.]
An answer ca.
"What do you an? Did he attack or sothing?" Noa questioned again.
[No. It just left its mark on you... like an imprint. But his intelligence should be lower than that.]
"All good then. Perhaps he evolved further than expected," Noa said.
He sighed in relief and watched the two beasts before him.
One, as always, acted like his stomach was bottomless, devouring two different energies with ease.
Umbu watched the scene with amusent.
He even made fun of Noa as his hand was covered with sticky stuff, almost binding his fingers together.
The second one was the sli itself.
It still had lower intelligence than the dragon, but its eyes looked strangely friendly.
Funnily enough, they resembled curved strokes of ink.
And even though they remained joyfully closed, his pure and innocent smile gave an impression of a creature that had never known stress.
It quickly slithered on Noa’s hands, reaching all the way to his shoulders.
The mont Umbu saw this, he jumped out of his shell and leapt at Noa, glaring at the sli for daring to take his place.
"Stop it, you two," Noa said, trying to calm them down.
Then he stepped out of the room, walking into the store.
But the scene he saw with his employees and the guards went beyond everything he had in mind.
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