AFS 2: Strange Fla Strangeness - (14) - Catching Up (Story End)
I unlocked the door, and it slid open. Spring, who had been sleeping outside, fell down and hit his head on the workshop floor. Since his physique was SSS-rank, the floor took more damage than his head. He opened his eyes and frowned.
I grinned down at him. “You’re still here.” Because my plans changed halfway through, I ended up taking much longer than I thought. It had already been around six hours since I began fixing my core.
He blinked. “I’m very good at waiting.”
“Co on in. I want to test sothing out.”
He jumped to his feet and walked in. I brought him to the center of the room and sat down cross-legged. “Sit behind with your back against mine.”
He nodded.
When I felt the warmth of his back, I began to cultivate, really cultivate. Not just refill my energy.
I breathed in the energy of the heavens and the earth, brought it through my ridians and cycled it around my body until it reached my dantian, where it increased my cultivation.
There was a minor bit of pushback from the universe but, between my updated core that more closely matched the story’s the and having this cannon fodder behind , it felt a hundred tis easier than when I cultivated to Golden Core several months ago.
I breathed out a turbid breath, expelling impurities. After doing that for around four hours, I easily made it to the peak of low Golden Core and neared the middle of the realm. I stopped my cultivation and waited. My dantian retained its new higher level.
I bent over and covered my face with my hands.
Goddamn fucking damn it!
“Fairy Lin. Did you figure it out? I’m about to fall asleep again.”
“Yeah, I figured it out.”
“Is it a good thing?”
I sat back up.
How the hell did I explain to this guy that when I cultivated without him just now, it was three tis as hard and none of my new cultivation stayed put? Of course, as soon as I ditated next to him, not only did I get faster, I could easily increase my cultivation by a small realm. I imagined that if he had my sa level and cultivated next to , even that little bit of pushback from the universe would be gone.
Fuck . Did this have sothing to do with him being the brother of the protagonist and soone who was supposed to die but lived thanks to ? Or did it have to do with my past life?
Well, either way, I couldn’t find out unless I figured out a way to ti travel, which was highly unlikely... but not impossible.
I leaned the back of my head against his neck and sighed.
“I’m going to have to teach you how to cultivate.”
“Well, you already gave those textbooks to prepare for it.”
“What I an is that it’s going to be harder for you because you’ll have to learn three major stages all at once. You don’t have the luxury of slowly learning everything from Qi Condensation and practicing until you grow used to things.”
“Hey, I’m not that brilliant, but I’m not stupid. Also, I’m not weak either physically or spiritually. If you want to cultivate, well, I already have the energy inside at SS-rank. Just teach . Haven’t I already told you, if you’re going to walk the path of immortality, I want you to take with you?”
“Well, you didn’t say it exactly like that before. Actually, when you phrase it like that, it almost sounds like you want to be my platonic Dao companion.”
“What’s that?”
“What? Seriously? That concept doesn’t exist in this universe anymore? Not even in fantasy stories?”
“Not that I know of, but I’m not a fiction expert.”
Right, he was a ch pilot expert.
I cleared my throat. “A Dao companion is supposed to be soone who walks along the path of immortality with you for as long as your Daos align.”
“I can see why you said it was similar.”
“There are two types. The first and most common are two people who are romantically involved. They will dual cultivate together to grow stronger.” I felt his back stiffen behind . What the hell? The concept of dual cultivation remained, but Dao companions and crabs didn’t?
Of course, I didn’t know a ton about Dao companions since finding soone who fit my impossible standards wasn’t going to happen. For , having a romantic-type Dao companion was absolutely impossible. “But the other type is for two people who are platonically so close that they don’t want to live without each other. I don’t think they physically cultivate in the sa way as the romantic type, but they likely do it at the sa ti and possibly in the sa immortal cave.”
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“So, are they just really good friends?”
“I’m not sure you’d call it friendship, as it’s probably much closer than that. Maybe like a partnership?”
“A bromance?”
I almost choked. “Eh, whatever. It’s supposed to be soone who has your back through thick and thin. I actually don’t know too much about it since the other variation is way more common. I an, the scandals that happened when Dao companions cheated or broke up were legendary. They were talked about like the rumors of your star net celebrities. Often the party that was cheated on would go to great lengths to slap the offender's face, and even murder them if necessary.” Ah, the stories I could tell if only I had the ti.
“So, is it just a fantasy na for marriage?”
“Nah, in the ancient past, marriage was really shitty for people, especially won. And it was sothing that almost all mortals were expected to do unless they joined an immortal cultivating clan or sect like I did. Depending on ti and place, divorce might not have even been a concept or legal.” By the ti I had the power to truly change things for the better in the mortal world, I’d had enough and just wanted to leave and beco immortal. “Things are much better in this era where won can beco the head of a noble house and inherit.”
Actually, out of all the universes and ti periods I’d lived through, this one was the most enjoyable for , even with the star crab invasion. And to think it was designed to highlight the specialness of so girl nad YaoYao.
I leaned against him a bit harder and got comfortable.
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