"Does something happen?" he hurried to ask, "how much have I been training?"
"For two weeks now," the golden dragon sighed as he added, "you stayed longer than I expected and made me quite worried for some moments there."
"Oh," Arthur smiled before adding, "two weeks might seem long, but in the future I might take years to train," he helplessly smiled as this was the nature of the cultivators.
"Boring," the golden dragon commented.
"Ding! You should have used meat to supplement your lost energy."
"Meat?" Arthur asked in doubt before adding, "I doubt it will provide me with anything."
"Ding! Your meat is specially made from the Golam. They surely are filled with energy."
Arthur thought for a moment before muttering, "might be true," he then moved his attention towards something else. "Do you have any clue about my mental node?"
"Are you asking me?" the golden dragon asked in doubt. "I know nothing about this bizarre way of yours to train."
"It's the node responsible for the soul cultivation path," Arthur said before explaining everything he went through during his cultivation.
"Dummy head, it's a mind node and it works by using your mind, not calmly sitting doing nothing at all!" the golden dragon laughed before adding, "use your mind to solve problems and difficult situations so it can work better and form its entire framework."
Arthur gave it more thought and finally he shrugged. "Can't tell without trying," he then glanced over the distance where his followers were working, "how are they doing?"
"Ding! Training on the old ways of the masters."
"Time to try my ways then," he muttered before taking out a normal sword he had before adding, "I'll try my new energy first to solidify my energy."
The next moment he started moving his hand and when he did, a strong backlash assaulted him, making him stugger a couple of steps while his sword fell from his twitching fingers. "What the hell…?!!" he exclaimed in shock while glancing all over his body.
"Ding! You used both energy together, making them clash."
"Aren't they my energies? How can they clash together?!"
"The dragon energy is arrogant, can't deal with those lower than it," the golden dragon harrumphed.
"Then should I wait until my energy became stronger?" Arthur asked in doubt.
"Nah, that will instigate the competitive nature of the dragon energy in your body," the golden dragon laughed before seriously adding, "the only way is to make both energies equal all the time."
"Equal?" Arthur muttered before shaking his head, "that's strange, how can I assess both then?"
"Simply by using the same technique by each energy separately, not combined, and assess the difference in the result," the golden dragon spoke about it like it was something basic.
"Sounds logical," Arthur nodded before grabbing his sword again, "let me try a simple wave of the sword with both and see the difference," he went towards a nearby rock before focusing on his dantian alone.
He stirred up the energy inside his dantian before waving his sword. The sword caused sparkles when it touched the rock, leaving behind a shallow mark over it.
"Let's see how my dragon energy will cause," he stopped stirring the dantian's energy and waited for a couple of moments for it to calm down before stirring up his dragonair's energy.
"Boom!"
When he waved his sword, the entire rock exploded and its pieces went to hit nearby rocks and trees, smashing all of them into pieces.
Arthur stood with numb scalp glancing at this great disparity while not knowing what to say.
"See? It's a difference of heaven and earth between the two," the golden dragon laughed before adding, "you have a long way to make both merge together."
"I agree," Arthur sighed before waiting for his dragonair's energy to calm down with a single thought in his mind. "Domineering!"
"But I only sensed one source of energy inside your body being stirred earlier," the golden dragon said before adding, "if you have two places then trying to merge them first will be the right course."
Arthur had sudden enlightenment from these words before he closed his eyes and tried to do the same.
Yet when he tried to push his dantian's energy upward, it seemed there was some sort of barrier preventing that. When he tried harder, his lower meridians sored, and he instantly stopped.
"Even my mind node doesn't want to merge with my energy," he opened his eyes as he said in bitterness. "Is my dantian energy this low?"
He didn't need an answer for that, as he already knew how low his current level in the cultivation ladder was. He was now in what was known as the foundation establishment stage one, the most basic and lowest of all.
"I need to wait until I gain signs of breaking through," he shook his head as he had to wait until his energy got purified and condensed inside his dantion before thinking of advancing again. "Time to test my own theories then."
He took a deep breath and arranged his thoughts. He now had many things to try, and the first he did was crafting. "I need a good sword," he told himself while taking the mold and other tools from his ring.
"Ding! You already have one."
"That bastard is sleeping so far, now even showing any signs of waking up so soon," Arthur recalled his bloodthirsty sword and felt some helplessness there. "It's strong yet these long naps of his must be cured first."
He then took the book of crafting that he received from Slone and started to revise it.
"They use the basic concept of merging one's energy into the materials and during the crafting process," he muttered before glancing all around, "despite this being a nice approach, this amount would pale in front of the endless heaven and earth energy."
He knew the concept was right, but the problem lied in the approach.. "I can deal now with heaven and earth energy, but what about them?" he thought for this dilemma for so long until he reached a conclusion.
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