V3C44: Accommodation and Introduction

The Gang Hong Clan was not happy about their defeat. Fortunately, they had enough of a spark of mental capacity to recall their initial agreement, and so they completed the agreement that they had set with the Brotherhood of Power before departing to their Great Yang Enlightenment Ceremony, which Wei Yi did decide to spy upon as to actually understand what this involved and whether it was as simply and crude as Luo Lia Kun believed it to be.

After everything was sorted, she and the Brotherhood was permitted to leave. She was led back to their headquarters, through the centre of the district and to that isolated portion of it, where a few individual buildings faced one another, and several shops were placed specifically to service the mercenaries and hired killers that typically resided there.

Having already scouted this area, she was somewhat familiar with the structure she was brought to, and upon a second viewing, she noticed an area where her spiritual perception was unable to view a single thing, regardless of how much effort she invested into it while still trying to remain inconspicuous. In theory, she would still be able to look into it if she stood right next to it and used the full extent of her fifth realm killing will cultivation, but that would certainly alert whoever had enough knowledge to create a barrier that would fully obscure the spiritual perception of someone with a realm that didn’t exist within the Planar Continents.

Judging by the location of the chamber, and what surrounded it, this would likely be where the leader of the Brotherhood of Power was closing up, and if what was said about her was true, then she would have the power of the fifth realm in a number of aspects, including a five-star comprehension of arrays, talismans, inscriptions and potentially even blacksmithing, which would give her plenty of opportunity to complete something like the obscuring chamber that she was now in.

Whether or not that was the case, Wei Yi did not intend to question the matter just yet, instead following Luo Lia Kun with some outward eagerness.

“And here is the location of our Brotherhood of Power. Here, many of our members that have not found housing of their own rest at night, or after they come from missions and hunts. Training halls and the like can be found around the building, as well as two bathing areas, one that is separated and another mixed, although any… romantic interaction is strictly discouraged within both,” Luo Lia Kun introduced her and a few others to the headquarters, although she glanced meaningfully at Wei Yi in a manner that the intended recipient of the message decided to ignore for her own convenience, “Further specifics can be found out from older members, or from me, if I have the time. Before I go on, is there anyone who currently doesn’t have a residence within the district, or has a camp and wishes to move into a proper building?”

Only a single person raised their hand, and their name did not need to be stated.

“Alright then, I will sort something out for you. Everyone else, go and get acquainted with the headquarters,” the vice-leader said, waving the others away before sighing, “Tell me, how long have you been within the district?”

“Two days.”

“Where’d you… ah, right. Chao Ru’s house… Hm. There should be a place for you, but you would need to stay in a room with a few other women. Can you promise not to make advances towards them?”

“Boss, I think you’re misunderstanding what happened yesterday. I didn’t start that.”

“Could you resist any advances if they were made towards you? This is very important, as this will decide whether I am able to provide you with a room to stay in or if you need to live out in the fields and plains most of the time,” Luo Lia Kun warned, almost glaring at her in order to make the correct answer as plain as possible.

“I thought you said that there was no policy against relationships and the like. Was that not true?”

“It’s just that simply being in the same room as you at night exhausted me immensely… If not for that Shi Taihao’s final attack proving to be far weaker than he or I expected, I’d probably not have won.”

“Ah, well, if that’s your concern, I know how to hold back. It had just been quite some time since I last got to spend any quality time with someone, so she and I may have gotten a little overly eager. In the future, I won’t do something like that again. Is that good enough for you?”

The vice-leader sighed, “Well, I suppose I cannot expect any more from you without needing to go to the leader and question her about the rules, so… Very well. Come with me.”

She brought her into the structure, through the open front door, although Wei Yi did observe the fact that they had a planar energy-based locking mechanism, presumably allowing the Brotherhood of Power to lock up at night or during certain situations and avoid those who hadn’t been permitted to use that particular door from accessing it. The fact that it wasn’t explained to her immediately suggested that they would either not permit her to have such access yet, or that adding someone else to the list of permitted users, as it were, was somewhat of a hassle.

Judging by a cursory glance at the inscription responsible for this – that it wasn’t a talisman was understandable, as the consumption of talismans to open and close the door constantly would be absolutely excessive not due to the materials that would need to be expended, but due to requiring a master of the great arts to constantly recreate them for every single entry and exit, an inscription was clearly deemed more effective.

The Luo of the Brotherhood didn’t appear to mind in the slightest, so she likely had the same opinion.

Just as a mansion would have a large open chamber at the entrance, typically with a large staircase at the front to create an impression of size and complexity, so did the Brotherhood’s headquarters feature a similar display, although it also had a desk to the side where those with the intention to hire them could go to converse with someone who had some connection to the Chen family.

Strictly speaking, such a lineage wasn’t absolutely necessary, but much like talent could be passed down generation through generation, so was the natural financial sense of the most money-obsessed and business savvy family bestowed upon even the far-removed children, with little obvious resemblance to the Chen family. When searching for a secretary, most would prefer to have someone who seemed less competent so long as they had the bloodline of the Chen, although that line of reasoning was often used by men with ordinary proclivities to hire generally attractive women, so perhaps that was not the most representative of statistics.

In this particular instance, the person currently standing by the counter was both a woman and a Chen, with their distinctive brown eyes and hair clearly accenting a pale face.

“Vice-leader Luo, you’ve returned. I congratulate you and your on your victory,” the woman said, bowing respectfully to her and then giving a shallow bow to Wei Yi, “Is the person with you a promising new member of the Brotherhood that you found at the arena?”

“That’s right. Organise a meeting with the inscriber whenever possible to add her energy to the locking system at these doors,” Luo Lia Kun instructed, not spending any more time there as she continued on.

Wei Yi, however, took advantage of the pause to scan through this figure in greater detail, confirming that she had a rather low cultivation of only the fourth stage of Planar Pool despite being seeming to be a member of the Brotherhood of Power, rather than just a random hire from the district that would have no reason to match any kind of strength standard.

Although she didn’t show this explicitly, the question must have been asked frequently enough for the vice-leader to begin explaining the moment that they were far enough away.

“Chen Shifu, the front entrance receptionist and, on occasion, our business manager, has some excellent talents when it comes to handling and making money, or negotiating with others, but even with several planar shards worth of pills and cultivation resources, she has struggled to make much progress. Since power comes in all forms, there is no problem with someone like her,” she clarified, “She is not bad at individual planar techniques as well, but she struggles to use them in combat.”

“Does she have blocked meridians, or perhaps a poor dantian?”

“You know about dantian quality?”

“Shouldn’t I? I have a bright white one, some people don’t, and they tend to struggle much more in cultivation. Is this not obvious?” Wei Yi spoke in a confused tone, making sure that her question couldn’t be seen as anything other than a genuine inquiry and not some attempt to probe.

This was made notably easier due to the fact that the several seconds taken by the vice-leader and the front door receptionist to speak with one another were more than sufficient for her to obtain the full map of the latter’s meridians, her dantian, cultivation and the state of her body as a whole, so even if someone could read the intentions of her voice, they wouldn’t be able to see it as anything more than a simple question made out of curiosity by someone without intent or ability to do anything about it, since she was hardly someone who went around and improved the talents of others for no good reason.

Furthermore, Chen Shifu seemed to be in a good position in life, so it wasn’t like she would perish within a few days if someone didn’t improve her cultivation. With enough resources, even a regular human could live for several hundred years, although there were few cases of anyone managing to sustain themselves for quite that long.

“I suppose that much is obvious. Here at the Brotherhood of Power, we have three qualities that we assign to dantians, which are: impure, common and cleansed. Most people obviously have the common one, which has a slightly yellow tone akin to a common man’s teeth, the impure dantian is outright grey, and a cleansed dantian has a natural white colour,” Luo Lia Kun explained, “An impure dantian inhibits your ability to cultivate and sense energy, while a cleansed one assists it. Some claim to have been able to develop their dantian by a stage, as we could call it, but it’s rather rare and nobody has been able to figure out a consistent method of achieving this.”

“Oh, that’s interesting. I have a cleansed one, then.”

Judging by the vice-leader’s immediate nod, it seemed that she was slowly understanding the impression that Wei Yi was intending to convey.

In theory, one of the best methods of hiding a secret of any kind was to make someone think that you were absolutely incapable of doing so. By giving away smaller secrets partially, or only as partial truths, like her claim to having the Ascendant physique, she was trying to make it seem as if she would just spill anything to anyone so long as they asked her about it. This would also hopefully create the impression that she didn’t understand the true value of most of the things she talked about, and conversely imply that if she was informed of the importance of a piece of information, she would be able to keep it to herself.

So long as people thought that she was simply naïve and uninformed, they ought to be more likely to share more secret and private information while thinking that she would either fail to understand it, or that they could just clarify that this was something she shouldn’t share to prevent her from doing so.

“Good, that explains some of your ability. Listen, in the future, don’t just tell everyone everything, alright? Speak to me about anything outstanding first, and I can confirm whether or not that is something that would be safe to reveal,” Luo Lia Kun said after a moment of thought, “If I am ever not available to speak to, and you think the matter might be something significant, I give you permission to enter wherever I am so long as I am not meeting with someone else. Does that make sense to you?”

“So, if you are sleeping, I can wake you up?”

She had clearly failed to consider this fully, so she was forced to pause and think for a moment, “Eh… So long as you genuinely believe this to be something important, I won’t chastise you.”

“Alright, I will do my best!” Wei Yi exclaimed, “So, where will I be staying, and who with?”

“The first person is someone that I have already mentioned,” Luo Lia Kun said, leading her up the stairs and into the depths of the Brotherhood of Power’s headquarters, so to speak, “Zhi Qiu Ya, who you have to be especially careful with if she decides to jump onto you and try anything strange. She can act a bit like a dog at times, so just tell her to stop, give her a-a pat on the head or something, and she will usually calm down… I didn’t stutter, there, by the way. I did not.”

“Is that the person with the living plague? Just to be sure, it isn’t contagious, right?”

“Not so far as we can tell. If you have any respect for people’s will, don’t take advantage of her while she’s in a bestial state,” the vice-leader ordered rather harshly, perhaps to distract from her earlier slip-up, “The second person there – well, both of the other two, actually – is someone who knows a lot about bloodlines and blood in general, who is monitoring Zhi Qiu Ya to make sure that nothing strange occurs, and is trying to figure out some method of holding back the living plague. She is called Long Huang, and you will recognise her by the red hair and eyes, as well as her very pale skin.”

“Red hair? Is it as red as mine?”

“No, not really. You put most members of the Yi family to shame with that, actually,” Luo Lia Kun remarked, “Finally, Mo Zhouquan is somebody that specifically focuses on plagues and diseases, and she… is exceptionally strange. I’m sure that you’ll know who she is the moment that you see her.”

A certain way into the building, the general rooms around them changed to bedrooms and various shared living spaces, ranging from rooms within individual beds and most of the space around them occupied by various items intended for training, practise, storage and information collection, to four-bed rooms that only offered enough space for each person to place a small chest worth of clothing and equipment.

This was mostly due to how many people were living within the structure, and not the restriction of space within the Luo District, as the headquarters were already enormous and would hardly be permitted to use up more space within the rather busy district centre, where a great number of other organisations, businesses and wealthy residents competed for space. As a result of the somewhat conservative living space, several thousand could fit within this one building, most of whom lived in the upper floors of the structure while the first and basement floors were reserved for other kinds of rooms and spaces, like storage, training and cultivation.

The room that was provided to her ended up being at the very end of the building, through a set of long corridors that led to a large window that currently displayed the last remnants of the setting sun, and much of the sky was already black, with stars and nebulae not entirely unlike those within cosmic energy appearing within it.

“Your room is on the left. Come on in, introduce yourself, and sleep for as long as you need to. I won’t allow anyone that participated within the duels to go on missions until tomorrow.”

“What would the leader say about that?”

“I try to base most of my decisions upon the things that she had done, so she would have done something similar to me. If not, I don’t expect her to emerge any time soon, so it’s not like we can confirm with her,” Luo Lia Kun stated, lightly nudging her towards the door, “Come on, one night of not tearing out hearts can’t be that difficult.”

“But the hearts… Fine, I’ll survive without it, somehow. Just let me in,” Wei Yi said, rushing into the room with blatantly faked irritation that the vice-leader would hopefully pick up on and understand that she wasn’t actually an insane murderous maniac.

The door to the room did have a locking inscription similar to the one in the front door, but it was currently inactive and actively required the infusion of planar energy in order to enable it, presumably to allow those on the inside to keep away intruders without needing to be able to use solidified planar energy to arrange arrays manually. When it was active, much like the lock at the entrance, a barrier would reinforce the entirety of the door and the frame that it was connected to and prevent most from breaching it in a short period of time.

As she entered, she witnessed two women, one of whom could only be Long Huang, arguing with one another.

“I can clearly tell that there is an effect on the bloodline of Zhi Qiu Ya, and your whole corruption crap is not relevant to this, Mo Zhouquan!” Long Huang declared, addressing the figure that perfectly fit the description provided by Luo Lia Kun previously.

She, that being Mo Zhouquan, had an incredibly unusual appearance. Perhaps the most ordinary was her hair, which was a combination of red and white flowing down to her waist, although even it seemed to tingle and shift around in an unnatural way, as if it was alive and moving on its own, although an immediate scan of it through spiritual perception didn’t reveal any trace of such a thing occurring.

Her skin had the natural olive shade of someone from this area, but her blood was dark, almost black, flowing through her veins with great clarity and making her look entirely inhuman.

Besides the slightly unusual purple eyes, which were occasionally seen but not as a core characteristic of any particular family, her eyes had purely black sclera, perhaps due to the effect of the blood flowing through her veins, or due to the same thing that had caused the rest of her transformations, like the extreme difference between her internal organs and those of the vast majority of humans. Their inhuman nature aside, from the few moments that Wei Yi dedicated to fully understanding the modified internal structure of this woman’s body, these changes did appear to yield a more efficient and effective system in most regards, which was highly useful considering her intent to achieve some breakthroughs in her physique in the near future, which would be helped greatly by understanding how to optimise various internal systems.

Not all of the changes were purely for efficiency, that much was obvious from the oddity of her appearance and the fact that her heart looked like it was a large parasitic creature that could devour someone’s face if it had been outside of her, which she would naturally avoid copying.

‘I have never heard of any kind of corruption that causes something like this, and I truly hope that some element of my cultivation or physique prevents such a thing from occurring,’ Wei Yi thought, as having certain parts of her body transformed into something resembling that woman’s internal organs would highly lower her chances of getting into bed with anyone.

That’s not the only thing she thought of when it comes to her appearance, but just as with her killing will form, she could forgive quite a few things if they would allow her greater power, or superior ability when it comes to some particular pursuit, but she did wish to have something that she could comfortably enjoy without needing to bother about every single other matter that she was typically concerned with, and random changes to her internal structure would not be conducive to this pursuit no matter the result.

“Oh, corruption crap, is it~… You are quite naïve, aren’t you~? I have plenty of experience with corruption, and I can clearly tell that it has affected that young woman, although I cannot be sure whether any other influences were also present,” Mo Zhouquan said, her voice somehow resembling a slick, slithering tendril, which was not a comparison that Wei Yi expected to make at any point in her life, “If you wish, I could unravel the very nature of it and show it to you~…”

“Hello, everyone! What are you discussing?”

“What a cute one~!” the black-blooded woman exclaimed the moment that she had a chance to take in Wei Yi’s appearance, “Darling, would you mind if I defiled you~?”

“Eh…”

“Shut your mouth, monstrous bitch. Don’t come onto someone like that when they first arrive.”

“Should I be waiting for her to reveal the true darkness beneath that bright exterior, eh~? That could be delicious as well~…”

‘What the fuck have I stumbled onto?’ Wei Yi was tempted to retreat and enter another room, pretending that she had entered the wrong bedroom, “I guess it’s none of my business, then. Which one of these beds isn’t occupied?”

However, she didn’t need to ask that question, no matter how foolish she was pretending to be, as only one of the beds within the room – two of which were placed above two others, leaving the middle of the room for a desk and some sets of drawers – looked to be untouched in the recent past. One of the others, the left upper bed, was covered with a lot of fur, another, the right lower bed, seemed to have been affected by the exact same influence as Mo Zhouquan was, seeming uncomfortably flesh-like and moist, a thin mist of moisture residing above the bedsheets, and the last one, the left lower bed, being stained in far too many fluids and colours to possibly guess what any single one of them was, although that did also result in any of their odours being mixed together and being entirely imperceptible as a result.

“I’ll take that one, then?” she pointed to the empty bed, and leapt onto it before anyone had the chance to dispute her claim.

“You’re going to be staying here?” Long Huang asked, then realised that her question was just as unnecessary as several of Wei Yi’s before, “Right. Don’t touch my bed if you don’t want to obtain the bloodline of a flesh hungry nest, and don’t touch it even if you do, since there are quite a few other bloodlines scattered all over my stuff.”

“Another hungry nest? What would it let me do?”

“I bet it would allow you to be quite fantastic~ at su-”

“Shut it, black-blooded beast,” the bloodline expert interrupted, tossing a slipper at the woman opposite her. Mo Zhouquan was able to evade it, forcing Long Huang to catch the flying item in mid-air with planar energy and bring it back towards her so that it wouldn’t land on the moist surface of the bed, as she also appeared to consider it to be a rather unpleasant sight and would almost certainly ruin the nice slipper with a single touch.

“The vice-leader said something about Zhi Qiu Ya, who, I assume, sleeps over there. Where is she right now?”

“You want to see the humanoid mutt? I don’t know where’s she’s gone to right now, but I will be as crass as to assume someone will come over soon to complain about her trying to approach their backsides,” Long Huang glared at the woman that sat down opposite her, who seeming to positively delight in the slight squelch that emerged from whatever was left of the bedsheets.

Since they didn’t seem to have anything useful to offer, Wei Yi lay down on the bed and got a feel for it, since she might need to remain there for some time until she decided to leave the district.

In theory, she could acquire a residence at any time, via theft or some of the planar shards that she had saved up, but that would create unnecessary hassle and force her to manage a home of her own. Allowing this mercenary organisation to take care of it was far easier, and allowed her to remain in close proximity with them and their leaders, who she was curious to learn more about due to the rather finite amount of information she had been able to obtain so far.

Depending on who they were and what their stance was, the Brotherhood of Power could end up as anything between a great ally for Wei Yi’s faction, or a foe that would need to be crippled and removed as quickly as possible to ensure that they wouldn’t have the opportunity to do the same to her.

The best outcome wouldn’t even be the acquisition of an ally, but information regarding a foe of the Great Families specifically, since encountering a faction that had invested a great deal of effort into figuring out the best methods to combat the techniques, methods and tactics of the Greats would immediately boost her chances of success in any attempt to target them, whether on a large or small scale, with or without assistance from others. Meanwhile, even the most powerful faction that dealt with the regular world might not be capable of doing a single thing against the Greats, especially if they are a well-known and established faction that the Great Families might have already prepared to go against.

Due to most such factions being either obliterated entirely by the Great Families after a failed attempt to combat them, like what appeared to occur with the War of Yin and those who participated in it, or being successful enough for the Greats to be unable to deal with them quickly and thus resorting to removing all knowledge about them from the world, as to prevent them from being able to garner support and more forces from the rest of the population.

Only a short while after she focused on her thoughts, Mo Zhouquan’s eyes appeared from beneath the edge of her bed, gazing at her with curiosity, “What is your name, unblighted flower~?”

“I’m Wei Yi, and I’ve heard your names from the vice-leader already.”

“Excellent~…” she quietly giggled to herself as she returned to her own bed with another wet squelch.

“Wei Yi, were you recruited for the arena fights the day before?” Long Huang asked, waited for her to nod, then continued, “Do you mind if I ask you some questions regarding your abilities and particular features, so that I may know what kinds of bloodlines you may be compatible with?”

“Sure, I guess. Have you figured out how to induce bloodlines into others?”

“Not yet, I am experimenting with it and Zhi Qiu Ya has been quite helpful so far…” she glared at the woman sitting on the opposite bed once more to stop her from trying to argue with her statement, “However, there appears to be a certain compatibility factor that makes certain bloodlines more effective, or less dangerous to interact with.”

“I see, that sounds very interesting. Alright, go ahead.”

“Good. First question: do you have the blood of any major family?”

“Don’t most people have some?”

“You could have come from one of the nations outside of Yi City, although that is truly rare,” Long Huang stated, having taken out a board that had a sheet of paper pressed onto it with a clip, “Do you have a physique, and if the answer is yes, what type is it?”

“I do, and… I think it’s a yang one?”

“Interesting. You don’t seem to have any physical deformities caused by a physique.”

“Are you implying that the pure flower has some deformities unrelated to a physique? What a naughty~, rude~ girl you are…”

“Ugh… Have you ever drunk, consumed, or in some other way absorbed the bloodline of a planar beast? For example, have you ever decided that it would be a good idea to bathe within a pool of draconic blood without doing a thing to purify it of the powerful bloodline resting within it?” the bloodline researched gave a strangely specific example, to the point that she confused herself slightly.

“I… I have had some baths in blood, but I don’t think there was any particular bloodline in there,” Wei Yi admitted, recalling the numerous times that she had decided to use the Beast’s blood to refine her own body, “How is this stuff relevant, anyway?”

“If you have a bloodline already, that greatly influences what effects a new one might have on you.”

“Why don’t you ask that flower~ if she has ever received the seed of another’s bloodline more directly?” Mo Zhouquan asked.

“You are particularly insufferable today, you monstrous amalgamation of oddity,” Long Huang muttered, sighing as she shook her head, “Fine, since this is also somewhat important, I might as well ask. Have you ever been pregnant?”

“No, I don’t really interact with anyone that could do that.”

“Good, keep not interacting with them. It is surprisingly rare to find a good test sub- I mean, good research mater- I… It is rare for someone not to influence their body with a major process like that. Even the female only club that seems to be forming in this particular bedroom doesn’t seem to be entirely immune, as the bi- woman sitting beneath you is almost certainly providing some of her body to strange entities and creatures for prolonged occupation,” she said, “Although, whether that will result in pregnancy or not is something I have yet to learn or understand, not that I wish to.”

“Oh, but why~? You are so~ keen to learn more about blood, and yet the moment that I show you the truth, the wonderful corruption that soaks through us all, you shy away~…”

“I thought it would be obvious. You are, and look like, a disgusting thing that should be burnt and sealed the moment that the opportunity arises, and the things you create around you are even less deserving of the privilege of existence. Furthermore, you fuck with good test subjects and prevent them from being suitable due to some seed of pure filth settling in within their bodies. Why would I ever tolerate something like that?” Long Huang questioned, turning back to Wei Yi, “Oh, and make sure not to ever sleep with or near the creature beneath you, understand? She will ruin anything you hold dear, and grin like a fucking idiot while doing it.”

“So rude~… Not all girls are as forgiving as I am~…”

“Stop breathing your noxious gases in my direction. I’ll be resting now, so shut the fuck up.”

Before she had the chance to hear anything else come out of Mo Zhouquan’s mouth, the interior of which appeared to contain and frequently release the same moist air as the one that hung above her bed, Long Huang leapt into her bed without bothering to remove a single article of clothing, simply putting the thick, stained sheets onto herself and covering every part of her body.

With how much was infused into them, and with how surprisingly little of it resembled blood despite her focus, it wouldn’t be surprising if they were able to obfuscate sound as well as smell or sight.

“Well, I suppose there is only so much I can say to one person in a single day…” Mo Zhouquan also sighed, a thick cloud of moist air pouring out of her lips and settling down on the bed. Her head looked up, and then she stood up and stared intently at Wei Yi, their eyes meeting when she couldn’t pretend to be lying still any longer, “My dear flower~, surely you will not be as reluctant to embrace the wonderful corruption as she is? Won’t you spend the night with me?”

She shook her head quickly, “I’ll be honest, I am very reluctant to get any nearer to you.”

“I suppose that is exactly what I should expect from a flower like yourself~…” the corrupted woman remarked, “Do not attempt to ward off curiosity when it comes for you. Embrace it. Allow it to seep into you, and fill your heart with the seed of delectable corruption… I promise, you will love it…”

“I don’t think that I will do that. Also, stop breathing like that onto my bed. It will be all wet in a moment.”

Mo Zhouquan only laughed quietly in response, although she did take her eyes off the top bed and also decided that it was time for rest. She took off the moist robe that covered much of her body, as well as the gloves that clung tightly to her fingers and almost half of the arm, both of which sounded far more fleshy than they ever should have been, then lay beneath the corrupted sheets with an eerie grin upon her face that managed to unnerve even Wei Yi, who should be mostly immune to all but the most significant and powerful poisons, diseases, toxins and whatever this corruption classified as.

Judging by the fact that Zhi Qiu Ya and Long Huang did not yet resemble her, as well as the fortunate reality that there were no traces of the aforementioned corrupting seed within the latter, it didn’t seem like being corrupted was something that could be accomplished with breath alone, but she still made sure to circulate her physique energy throughout her body constantly as she, too, undressed and decided to go to sleep – that is, pretend to do so while within the Realm of Potential.

‘Alright, I think a good idea now would be to combine the Phoenix Transformation and the Vibrant Phoenix physique ability together, which might take quite a long while…’