AFS 2: Strange Fla Strangeness - (6) - We’re Not Done Yet!
Seriously, I could have gotten out of there myself… eventually. I had used most of my spiritual energy keeping my heat-shield up to protect from the scorching lava and its weight. Then it cooled and hardened around as I moved up.
I was planning on using my last bit of energy as sword Qi to slice my way out, but my divine sense picked up on Spring running toward . From the way his energy pulsed, I knew he was about to increase his physical rank.
If I was going to be his teacher in the future, I needed to give him space to grow, and if that ant I had to get stuck in rock for a while longer so he could have his growth period, that was what I would do.
The only issue was that now, I was almost drained of spiritual energy. Spring had also overdone it and needed ti to recuperate.
“Did you get the strange fla you wanted?” Spring asked.
I gave him a look. “Of course! Who do you think I am?”
“Fairy Lin.”
“That’s right! Muahahaha!”
I pushed myself up and sat in the lotus position.
“Watch my back!”
He nodded and struggled to get up. Then he sat with his back pressed up against mine.
Yeah, I hadn’t ant that literally. He was using as a damn back rest! Ah, whatever. I’d let it go this once because he looked tired.
I breathed in the energy of the heavens and the earth. It was very thick in the area so it was very easy to take it in, cycle it, store it in my dantian next to my golden core, and breathe out the impurities.
Actually, even if the energy around here was thick, it was a little too easy. My speed was faster than it usually was as well. What would have taken six hours only took three. The fuck was going on?
“Hey, scoot forward.”
Spring scooted forward a few feet. “Oh, am I too heavy? Sorry.”
I snorted. As if.
I then continued. When I cycled my cultivation, it wasn’t nearly as fast.
“Goddamn it.”
“...” He cleared his throat. “Is there sothing wrong?”
“This calls for a test!” I moved over and pressed both of my hands to Spring’s back. “I’m going to cycle my energy through you, and I want you to tell which way you feel the most amount of resistance from the universe.”
“I’m not sure I understand.”
“You will.”
I infused my spiritual energy into him and moved it in the normal direction of the Qi Condensation version of Lin’s Kick Ass Cultivation Technique, No Peeking.
He stiffened. His jaw clenched.
I stopped before gathering Qi strands in his dantian. His natural spiritual energy that had begun to stir, stilled and went back to being diffuse within his body. When it finished settling, I reversed it.
He paled. His knuckles turned white, but he didn’t look like he was in pain. I stopped it before I reached his dantian.
“Did you feel it?”
He nodded. “The first one felt terrible and unnatural.”
“And the second version?”
“It felt natural, like I was built for it. But it also felt like I was doing sothing terrible. It was ntally exhausting.”
I nodded and slapped his back. My hand ached. Damn it, the SSS physique was nothing to sneeze at. “Alright. I think I know how to build your cultivation technique. We’ll just have to prepare more extensively for it because you’ll have to reach Golden Core in one go, like .”
I stood up. “I’m done cultivating for now, and if we stay here much longer, we won’t be able to et up with our faked teletry data.”
He jumped to his feet, likely realizing that we were close to getting caught. He paused. “What about the rubber for the ch’s feet?”
I grimaced. “Ten minutes and I’ll MacGyver a temporary fix.” Who knew that one crafter’s formation, which added a kind of grippy friction to a surface, would actually co in handy?
***
I pointed past Spring’s head. “To the left, now!”
He twisted his wrist, pulled back on the throttle, and jumped through the trees just in ti for Steve to co flying toward us.
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He’d just finished slowing our speed down to normal, when a blue ch burst from the trees. It was Maya Chen’s ch! It had her team’s small blue flag attached to its back.
Ah shit. How did we find the Blue team, already? It was almost like the damn author was trying to speed things up because she was behind schedule and bit off more than she could chew.
The good thing for us was that she was by herself and had her team’s flag.
“Quick, shoot it!”
Since lethal shots were illegal in this challenge, Spring aid his rifle toward the ch’s feet and fired.
Maya dodged while shooting at our shoulders. She practically flew backwards into the massive shrubbery, regaining cover.
“You missed.”
“She dodged.”
“Your physique is better now, so it still counts as a miss.”
He scowled. “I’m still getting used to it.”
With my divine sense, I noticed sothing off. Sothing dangerous. Fuck! This wasn’t supposed to happen for another day or two. Unless just by being here I’ve already changed the tiline from the original story.
I grabbed Spring’s shoulder.
“What?”
“Six heavy flying star crabs coming in fast on our 2!”
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