He didn't hear a thing while he only put in his mind the goal of opening the three nodes with the precious and extremely rare mind node.
As he managed to link the two nodes together, he started to link each to his dantian to strengthen the circuit. "The more meridians opened and linked the dantian and nodes together, the stronger I will become in the future," he said these words, encouraging himself and trying to cross his limits.
Doing so wasn't that hard, and he started to adapt to the pain of opening his meridians. When he finished doing this, he started to see slight gain at the moment in the form of increasing the amount of spiritual energy his body absorbed.
"Good, now I have to wait to fill them up before heading to hit the mind node," he muttered before suddenly recalling the words of that cultivator, having a sudden enlightenment about these. "or I shouldn't do that…" he paused before assessing his energy remaining inside his upper meridians.
"They are indeed weak, yet not too weak to fail in opening these meridians…" he thought to himself before finally deciding to give it a shot.
The moment he pushed his energy inside the closed meridian network inside his brain, he felt such an excruciating headache that was enough to make him scream under normal circumstances.
Yet he gritted his teeth and kept his breathing normal despite his body kept shivering out of extensive, unbearable pain.
He was astonished to see his energy opening up the collapsed meridians and slowly filling the network.
"Wow, so that was his meaning after all," he muttered in surprise and delight, overshadowing all the exhaustion and pain he was feeling so far. "It's filling them like water filling small dried up field canals."
He waited, patiently enduring this severe headache that kept escalating with more meridians being opened. After sometime, he lost track of how many meridians he opened, yet he knew he was making unexpected progress and that alone was enough for him.
"Just a little longer," he patiently pushed the weak energy residing in his meridians towards more meridians while setting his gaze upon the grand prize.
"Shall I take more energy from below or this would be enough?" He was in this dilemma before he decided to follow the guidance of that figure and keep using his weak, almost exhausting energy.
When he reached the mind node finally, his energy was so thin that he doubted its ability to even cause a reaction at its surface. However he didn't hesitate and pushed the energy forward, crossing the last step towards the great milestone.
"Impressive!'' The moment he stirred up his energy in the meridian closest to the node, suddenly all the energy inside the opened complex network around the node stirred up as well.
For him, he felt like a giant wave was coming, from all the meridians he opened, gathering up weak streams of energy to form a mighty wave that took over the node instantly without any resistance.
And then he felt all weak, enlightened, frail, and excited at the same moment.
"I need to replenish energy, fast," he knew exactly where the weakness and fragility came from. His energy was getting diluted among a great network of meridians and the newly opened great node.
If he didn't hurry and resupply them with more energy, he would be doomed to fail.
Yet when he just controlled some spare of the dantian's energy to move up, he had a strange discovery that made him more amazed.
"No fucking way! The node is acting like a dantian and producing energy from outside! How come!!"
Just as he was trying to rescue his gains, he found a wisp of energy produced all of sudden inside his mind node. This little wisp startled him, and in no time another one appeared, then another.
"The headache is gone," he muttered to himself when he calmed down his racing thoughts and started to assess the situation under new lights. "and I have this strange thought in my mind, confidence in my ability to succeed in anything I want."
He was astonished beyond belief when he felt this strange thought that kept increasing with time. His doubt and worry were all gone, and now only one sense of confidence overwhelmed him.
"Is this the effect of the mind node?" he muttered while watching the miraculous wisps of energy produced from his node. "The energy itself looks a little different," he tried to feel the wisps that started to move outside and fill his weak meridians.
The energy wasn't filling them, instead he felt the wisps were a little more solid than normal energy. It was as if a giant spider was weaving its web network inside his meridians, controlling them.
"So it's going to control all of these meridians with these wisps of energy?" he thought while seeing the color of these wisps getting more blue. Unlike his energy inside his dantian, pelvis and chest nodes, and all the meridians he opened so far, these wisps looked more blue than transparent.
"I'm exhausted," he said to himself before adding, "but I'm almost finished. I can't stop training now. I need to fill up all my two dantians before calling it over."
He kept breathing calmly while waiting in his place for a couple of days more. His dantian was filled at the early hours of the third day, yet his mind node wasn't.
"This node… it's a monster," he shook his head while feeling more puzzled towards the way it was absorbing energy from the world. "I'm pretty sure now it doesn't follow the normal way of breathing like my dantian," he thought before deciding to end his training here.
The moment he opened his eyes, he breathed a long blue breath that extended for a couple of meters. "It's really refreshing after breaking through," he muttered while feeling his body brimming with energy.
He clenched his fists and examined his body before the system spoke:
"Ding! Finally you are awake!"
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