"Blasted procedures, we could have just flown in."
Solon was pacing at the ornate entrance to the west side of the Heavenly Maiden Sect proper. Bord only looked in amusent at his disciple. Solon was barely holding in his high Sand Tier aura, but the guard was a peak Gold Tier so it was not that impressive.
"If you want to be stomped on by powerful won, just leave
out of it."
Bord poked fun at Solon and was rewarded with a slash of sword Qi. Bord easily defeated it. He was not so old he could not run circles around the youth yet.
Solon was mostly tired of traveling. After the patrol which had no battles at all for months ended in an imdiate journey to the Heavenly Maiden Sect. The lands ruled by them had several teleportation arrays, but both swordsn preferred to walk.
As if the spirits were picking on Solon, absolutely nothing happened on the journey there. No beast tides, no bandits, no abuse of powers, absolutely nothing compared to a normal journey. Bord was surprised but decided it was a gift to let him not waste what little ti he had left.
"Are you Bord of the Fla?"
The handso woman at the gate suddenly asked a question after observing the exchange. Sword Qi was not unique to the Divine Sword Sect, but they were the experts. Still, Bord was pleased to hear his title.
"It is indeed I. May I ask how you know about , young lady?"
Normally, a lower tier calling a higher tier young would be an imnse disrespect, but because of who Bord was, he was allowed so leeway.
The guard suddenly smiled and offered her own blade. Bord smiled and assud his stance. Solon finally settled down and beca solemn. The air began to vibrate as a profound white glow appeared on both blades.
Despite being at Gold Tier, the guard felt pressured by Bord's sword Qi. A smile spread on her face as sharpness increased. Sword Qi was not like elental Qi, it had to be cultivated separately to raise it up much like elental tempering in the Soul Realm.
Unlike the elents, there was little risk of causing an issue in a dantian, but Solon looked concerned as Bord was sweating now. Normally, this level of contest would be nothing but Bord was clearly pushing himself. Bord then smirked as his sword Qi set ablaze.
The Qi on the guard's sword shattered and she stepped back just once. Respect was in her pale violet eyes as she bowed to Bord.
"Thank you for the instruction."
Bord nodded and took a seat to relax. Solon estimated his master was ok, but it would be unwise to push himself much longer. A sadness washed over his face before a voice called out.
"SOLON!"
A youth ca sprinting out of the gate and bowled Solon over. He had grown in height to be as tall as Solon, himself. His body was far more filled out and Bord noted clear signs of battle training. It was not sword work but still clear to see.
"Let
go. You are neither a beautiful woman nor my brother in arms!"
Despite Solon's words, he did not put his full strength into fending off Lind. Bord was glad his disciple was looking out for the next generation.
Bord then saw surprise pass over the boy's face as he looked at him. Bord was wondering what was up when the pair of dark green eyes focused where his dantian would be.
"Only 3 cores but I see 6 elents flowing around you. Are you like ?"
The young man was openly curious but Bord did not mind at all. A quick push of dantian cause all his elents to flare for confirmation. He quickly suppressed the feeling of pain but saw concern flash over the boy's face.
"Follow
please."
The boy bowed to the guard who respectfully bowed back. Bord was stunned that a Soul Realm could get a Gold Tier to bow back like that. Solon led the way behind the boy. Their conversation brought a smile to the older man's face as he followed them deeper into the Heavenly Maiden Sect.
****
Lind had both n sit down in his entrance courtyard as he prepared tea. It was late at night but he was no longer tired. Solon was at high Sand Tier if Lind was to guess, while the older man, Bord, was barely a match.
Lind could not shake what he had seen at the gate. A 6 elental in the World Realm but also not. Half his cores were still there while the other half were now reshaped into bowl shapes with their elents flowing outwards from the top. Those had to be the elental fonts a World Realm forms but Lind had never been able to clearly see them.
What bothered him was the complete lack of a harmony fla in the dantian. He also noted that the dantian seed damaged, cracked even to his Eyes. Lind gathered so herbs and produced so beast cores from his storage ring as ideas flowed in his mind.
Seeing Bord's dantian had sparked an idea and he could not stop himself.
"Ichor from crimson root, bark of iridium tree, I need a bird beast core…"
Lind was mumbling as the 2 swordsn could only stare at him. Neither knew what he was doing, but a swift knock distracted them.
"What in the cursed spirits are YOU doing here lecher?"
Shoti almost distracted Lind but after she entered, Solon suddenly beca very quiet. A sad smile stretched over Lind's face for a mont but he kept quiet. He had not yet talked to Shoti and Qing but they had beco much closer over the last 2 months.
Lind finally felt he had the right ingredients. Compared to grade 2 elixirs, grade 3 required far more ingredients. There were 7 herbs, 3 cores, and even 3 mid grade spirit stones. Before Shoti could stop him, Lind extracted the essence from all of them. When he first started, he could barely get 3 essence to co together, but now this much was easy.
Mixing them, however, was far more complicated. Lind summoned water from his own dantian as that had the best results as he quickly stomped on the formation plate by his feet to activate the Qi gathering arrays.
All 3 World Realms froze at the profound feeling coming from Lind. Shoti looked shocked no doubt, but Solon and Bord were just in awe. Lind was using the full power of his tier 7 foundation to conjure water and fire. His Sky Touch made this process much easier on him, but Lind still needed practice on the more delicate side of things.
"Lind–"
Shoti tried to speak but a single glance from him was enough to stop her. He trusted Solon. Besides, this was only possible with the inspiration of his master, Bord. The essences did not want to blend at first, but Lind was an expert at coaxing them now. He started with a few herbs, then a beast core, followed by a stone and repeated it.
Light began to emit from the mixture as Lind poured his Qi into it. The hurdle of mixture finally was surpassed and Lind noticed he was sweating profusely as his Qi was bottoming out even with the arrays to help him.
Lind pushed and the elixir finally ca together. A spiral of colors blossod until it seed to beco clear. Lind quickly filled 4 vials full before all the elixir was used up. He nearly collapsed before Shoti caught him. He smiled and quickly took out a recovery elixir.
The flow of Qi quickly refilled his dantian and made his body feel much better.
"Lind–What was that?!"
Solon stood in shock before Lind walked towards his friend with a smile. A golden badge was produced and handed to Solon who looked at it for the length of ti to burn a stick on incense. The 3 on it with the strange symbol of the divided vial took a long ti to break through the ntal block on Solon's mind.
Bord now looked at Lind with respect and bowed to him. A grade 3 expert, regardless of realm, was on par with a World Realm senior.
"Y-y-you're the elixir master of the Heavenly Maiden Sect?!"
Solon limply fell down onto the couch. His sword almost fell off his back, but he instinctively caught it. Bord chucked but the old man was confused as one vial was handed to him.
"What is this for, young elixir master?"
Bord held the vial up and noticed it was like a prism. Light revealed all 6 colors of a dantian floating inside. It was quite beautiful and the aura clearly put it in grade 3, if on the low end.
"I saw your broken dantian and it inspired , senior Bord. I cannot make your remaining cores into fonts, but I did feel like I could do sothing after all I have studied on my own dantian."
Lind then poured out 1 dose from the vial and again offered it to Bord.
All looked at the old man and his pale red eyes seed to have a spark rekindle in them. Bord took the dose and examined it with his own senses but as he had no comparison, he could only take the chance. Afterall, he had co all this way just to see the promising 6 elental Solon knew.
He swallowed the dose and felt pure Qi flow through his ridians. He guided it to his dantian and felt sothing pure behind it. Once it reached his dantian, pain suddenly spiked but it was far different from before.
Lind felt it. He followed all of it and his erald fla suddenly burst outward and both n looked at each other. Lind began to glow with erald light as Bord began to glow a burnt orange light. His harmony was still there! Lind had been right.
Bord swallowed the rest of the vial and the 2 dantians seed to feed off each other. Lind felt the imbalance in Bord's dantian and felt sothing move him. Erald fire flowed from his hands and was pushed into Bord. The old man did not resist as the fla felt so pleasant.
Lind saw small damages to the ridians being repaired by his elixir as the dantian cracks also healed. A sudden surge of Qi flowed into Bord and Lind fueled more of his erald fla into the man as well. Lind had just recovered but now he was pulling all of his Qi to generate his harmony as he was.
Shoti and Solon quickly stepped back as sothing warned them not to be too close. Lind was blazing now but was not hard and Bord was slowly catching up. The sound of breaking glass was heard when Bord suddenly fell down in pain but none could co close.
A serene expression ca over the old man's face as he assud a lotus position and the burnt orange fla mixed with erald light. Lind was in pain now as well but he pushed on. It was almost there, he could feel it. Sothing important about his harmony was on the tip of his tongue.
Before Lind could grasp it, he felt a backlash push him back. Shoti caught him and he quickly assessed himself. He had a little damage but nothing serious. All 3 suddenly looked at Bord as the feeling of his aura stabilized and then broke through!
"By the spirits, Stone Tier, he broke through to Stone Tier!"
Solon was crying as he looked on but Lind was stunned as the once clear dantain beca too profound to look at anymore. He had 6 fonts now, all 6 fonts were turned inward before the image faded. Lind smiled as he passed out.
He would na that elixir, Dantian Restoration.
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