Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

"Sigh, I swear to the dragon ancestors that this kid is going to kill me!" The golden dragon heaved finally a long sigh of relief.

"Ding! At least he isn't overwhelmed with the breakthrough feeling and still has some sanity in him."

For the two, they sensed the damage happening to his body without a reason. All of sudden all his body started to get strange self inflicted wounds with no apparent reason.

At first it only started sporadically, yet on the course of the past day these kept increasing in frequency until the two were convinced he was going to die if this kept going on like this.

But Arthur stepped in when he stirred up his dragonair's energy. The energy itself had a self healing power, and stimulating it at this perfect timing helped to decrease the severe side effects of his core formation.

Yet for Arthur he was much frustrated by his lack of knowledge of what his star map was doing inside this veil of fog.

"Damn! This is my first time hearing of a cultivator breaking through without even being able to assess the process," he cursed out loud when two days went by and even his dragon body started to show signs of weakness and injuries.

When the third day was almost over, he finally started to get a progress from all this secrecy around his mental node. "Finally! What is this fog inside my node? Damn!" he finally could see inside the mental node, and what he saw was a thick cloud of fog that was getting fainter with time.

The fog inside his mental dantian was strangely blue in color, not white nor black. "So what is the end result after all this?" he sighed in frustration while waiting for the fog to be dissipated.

The good news was that the damage he received was stopped the moment he was allowed to enter his montal node. On a side note, his dragonair energy started to heal all the damage his entire body was suffering, making him feel much better in less than two days.

Yet the fog took roughly five days to be thin to allow him to see his star map and his new core formed by it. "Damn! You deserve to be called a greedy monster little one," he was shocked the moment he spotted the core floating peacefully inside his dantian.

It wasn't a ball, it was a ball inside a box with a pyramid in the core; it was a triple core of the strongest forms ever he heard of. "Damn!" he cursed out of his excitement and couldn't control his joy, "you worth each moment of pain I suffered for, little one."

He started to assess his core, and as he expected it was out of his league. "This core… it's much more advanced and pure than the highest cores I've ever heard of," he muttered to himself after long hours of testing. "Now how will you control this beast?"

Having a strong core was something rare, yet it wasn't necessarily a blessing. He personally saw a couple of cultivators get astray in their dealing with their super cores and eventually they hit a solid wall in their cultivation path.

Ending up being nothing wasn't the best thing in the world. He didn't seek momentarily success, but something solid to build strong foundation upon.

Yet when he tried to interfere, linking the core with his scarce amount of energy, his star map shook and the next moment all his control vanished.

"C'mon!" he shouted in anger, "can't you appreciate a little help?" he was speechlessly watching the star map covering the entire core with an invisible coat that prevented him from interfering.

He watched with no power at all, feeling more doubt and frustration while the fog finally got cleared. "What are you going to do now, sneaky little bastard?" he muttered in anger and loss of patience towards the rude behavior of his little star map.

The star map seemed to hear his words as it shook, and the next moment the core itself shook with it.

Then Arthur felt a sudden gush of energy coming from the outside. During all the past days, he felt the energy absorption diminished by a lot, which wasn't alarming for him.

During great moments, it was usually a fact that the outside world wouldn't interfere, giving the cultivator a chance to control everything.

Yet Arthur couldn't benefit from this at the moment. However when the switch was flipped, massive amounts of energy entered his body like the energy he should be absorbing all the past days were reserved to him by the world and was granted at these few hours to him.

And despite all these energy influx, he felt it wasn't enough to satisfy the needs of his little map. "I'll give you a hand then and trust you on this," he helplessly muttered as he had nothing in hand else to do but that.

Again his regular breathing returned and the amount of energy kept increasing with time. After five more days the energy finally reached a level inside his body to make him feel he could explode if he absorbed more.

"Rumble!"

This didn't come from his star map, but from his newly formed core. The core rumbled and strangely it began to shine in faint blue light before it started to radiate long rays of light that penetrated all his meridians and nodes.

"Strange, they are following the meridian path," he noticed that these rays of light weren't moving normally, as if they were long thread weaved by a spider and controlling them. "What do you intend to do?" he muttered while watching both his mental dantian and these rays of light.

"Wow, they are merging with the meridian walls!" at first it was hard to notice this, yet he kept having signs from many places until he became sure of this conclusion. "What are you aiming for, little core of mine?"