He didn't know if Lu Li could come back as the king but he did know that he was in trouble.
He had been cultivating for five years and it had been smooth sailing. Both his body and soul were getting stronger. He had made some progress in the cultivation of his soul. He had made progress in the soul skill given to him by the Swan Ancestor from the Hell of the Boundless Divine Ruins.
The energy here also had the effect of the Sacred Pond. Lu Li had been cultivating here for a while. He felt comfortable, as if he was in his mother's belly.
Everything was going well. His body and soul were improving fast. If nothing went wrong, Lu Li's abilities would be improved after 10 years here. He might not be a match for Qian Dagger, but he would be able to defeat average warriors at the middle stage of the Asmodian Lord.
But now, something unexpected had happened …
For some reason, Lu Li felt his body was expanding and so was his soul.
He felt like an inflated balloon. His entire body was so full that it seemed like it could explode at any moment.
The human body was a natural formation that could absorb external energy to strengthen itself. Now, Lu Li was absorbing external energy.
These energies had all been easily refined and absorbed by him, so why was he feeling bloated now?
There could only be two explanations. First, the energy he was absorbing was not compatible with his body.
Second, there was something wrong with his body. The pond should be fine since so many Asmodian Lords were cultivating here.
Lu Li believed the former was more likely because he was not a citizen of the Asmodian Abyss, not born from the pond. It was highly possible that he was repelled by the energy in the pond.
Every land and every land nurtures its own people!
There was a certain philosophy behind this. The Asmodians were a special race born from the pond. The royal family of the Asmodian Abyss seemed to be similar to humans but there were differences.
For instance, the royal family of the Asmodian Abyss could transform into monsters. Therefore, essentially, the citizens of the Asmodian Abyss were another kind of creatures, a strange species born from nature.
Even though Lu Li had been demonized and absorbed the holy water from the Sacred Pond, he was a different species.
He was different from Qi Tianyu. Qi Tianyu had occupied the body of a royal family. His soul must have been demonized after so many years in the Asmodian Abyss.
Whatever it was, Lu Li had to find a way to deal with it. This was not something he could solve by leaving the pool. Over the years, his body and soul had absorbed too much energy.
This energy had fused with his body and soul. Even if he went out, this energy would still cause chaos. If he didn't think of a way to guide it, once this energy was messed up, he would be blown to pieces.
What to do?
Lu Li stopped cultivating and kept thinking about this. If Sacred Ancestor Tian was here, he might have a way. But if it was Sacred Ancestor Yuan, it would be useless even if he begged Sacred Ancestor Yuan. Sacred Ancestor Yuan did not care about him at all.
Time moved on. Half a month had passed. Lu Li was still absorbing energy but he didn't know how to deal with it.
This energy had completely fused with his body and soul, becoming a part of him. How could he expel this energy?
Could it be that he had destroyed his physical body?
Create a new body?
Or should he learn from Qi Tianyu and possess the bodies of various members of the Imperial Family?
But his powerful physical body was destroyed.
Moreover, his soul felt like it was about to go berserk. Could it be that he had changed his soul as well?
Therefore, Lu Li had to figure out a way to refine this energy and turn it into his own so that it could fuse with his soul and body.
Lu Li had the elixir before. If he could channel the energy into the elixir and transform it, something might happen. But he didn't have the elixir now. Channeling the energy into his acupoints would be pointless.
His acupoints felt like a place to store energy, not a place to transform it. It was more like a storage device.
"Eh … right!"
Lu Li thought about it. He didn't have the elixir anymore but he still had the Realm of Dharma in it. If he could absorb the energy into the Realm of Dharma, would he be able to refine it?
Would he be able to use the energy in the end?
Lu Li's Realm of Dharma was large now, with a radius of more than three thousand miles. Apart from that, nothing had changed. The only difference was that he had more sources of energy now.
He thought about it and began to mobilize the energy in his body to see if he could extract it and transfer it into the Realm of Dharma.
The problem was, the energy had become a part of his body and soul. How could he extract it?
Lu Li thought for an hour and came up with several ideas.
He began to try. The first two or three ideas didn't work. But he was not discouraged and he kept on trying.
After spending three days, he finally thought of a way. He used a special method to absorb a strand of energy into his meridians. Then, he circulated it out of his meridians and transferred it to the Dharma Realm within the divine elixir.
The energy was successfully transferred and sent into the Realm of Dharma. But would it work? Could the energy be refined?
Lu Li didn't know if the energy could turn from a raging wave into a gentle stream.
That strand of energy floated around in the Realm of Dharma. Lu Li didn't know how to refine it. He thought about it and transferred it into his source energy to see if it could be integrated with the source energy.
But it couldn't!
That strand of energy merged with the source energy. But it didn't interfere with each other. It couldn't be integrated.
That strand of energy floated around in the Realm of Dharma by itself, out of place.
Over the next couple of days, Lu Li tried several ways. But the strand of energy didn't change. It was the same as before.
Lu Li thought of several ways again. After a few days, there was still no change in the energy.
Lu Li gave up!
He stopped worrying about that strand of energy and began to think of other ways.
As time went on, more and more energy was stored in his body. His body and soul would feel more and more swollen. He had a feeling that in half a year at most, his body and soul would not be able to take it and he would explode.
Lu Li made up his mind. He would spend three more months to figure out a way. If he couldn't come up with a solution in three months, then he would have to leave the Heaven Lake and beg Sacred Ancestor Yun to save his life.
If Sacred Ancestor Yun ignored him, then Lu Li would have to accept his fate and die in a foreign land.
Time flew by. Soon, two and a half months had passed. Lu Li was suffering. He felt dry all over and his body was trembling.
His body was trembling slightly. His abnormal behavior attracted Qi Tianyu's attention, as well as Qian Gang's and the others' attention. It even attracted Lady Jing's attention.
Qian Gang and the others took a look and thought about it. They were delighted. They had guessed something.
Even though they didn't know the details, they were happy that Lu Li was suffering.
Lady Jing didn't say anything. After all, she didn't know Lu Li well. She just paid some attention to him. Qi Tianyu, on the other hand, was happy. Lu Li was his archenemy.
Lu Li gave up as well. He had tried many ways but to no avail. The only way left for him was to lower his head and ask Sacred Ancestor Yuan for help.
"Eh … something is wrong!"
He took a look at the Realm of Dharma in the elixir and realized something was wrong. He had sent a strand of energy into the Realm of Dharma but it had disappeared without a trace.
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PS:
I forgot to update. Sorry!
Today was the birthday of the old monster. He only updated one chapter and took a day off.
Soon, he was 35. He felt he had lived more than half of his life.