Chapter 653: Qi Spools

Chapter 653: Qi Spools

His body instantly crystalized. Between his smaller body and the highly concentrated compressed qi, the technique activated faster than ever before. The crystal glistened, nearly translucent, its structure more dense than before.

Ah? Is this because of the compressed qi? Its condensed down to a more powerful form, so my techniques also get compressed and become more powerful? Excellent!

The blades struck Hui and clattered harmlessly off his body, barely drawing scratches in the crystal surface. They ground shut, closing as tight around the small shape as they could, then retracted again.

Beaming, Hui checked himself over. A few scratches, but thats not bad! Sure, this body wont last forever, but itll last much longer than my first body did. At this rate, I really can last through all ten thousand rounds of the room!

Between the concentrated qi and my smaller body, Im already doing well. But can I do even better? The compressed qi makes my magic more powerful, but what if I also compress my body?

Rather than immediately attempt to put his idea into action, Hui folded his legs and sat in a lotus pose, hovering a few inches over the ashes of his former body. While the rounds ground on and the blades closed in over and over again, he meditated, contemplating his next course of action. My body, but condensed. More muscle fibers per inch. Incredibly dense. In a way, instead of creating a smaller body out of normal-sized components, Ill be creating a normal body out of compressed components, such that my body remains small due to the compression of each individual component, but holds much more power as a result! Ideally, Ill be able to use my full bodily and magical strength at my small size.Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

If I can do that, then this technique becomes even more useful than it already is! After all, Ive used small bodies with my plant form before in order to burrow through the ground and escape. However, due to being clones and plant-based, I didnt have these same problems from the start, the lotus clones are more flexible and able to constantly heal, and secondly, back then, I was lower-realm. Even before I compressed my qi, my body was able to handle fourth-realm qi, and with the lotus plants pain suppression, flexibility, and healing factor, naturally, I was able to easily handle fifth-realm qi!

However, seventh realm is a big upgrade from fourth or fifth, since Ive begun to tread my Dao. Its a completely different equation now! I dont know if I could have compressed my qi back then. I wasnt able to manipulate qi as freely or in as much volume as I can now.

But thats all in the past. The question now is, how do I compress the components of my body?

The tiny finger floated in front of him. Hui squinted at it. Can I trust you?

The finger had nothing to say for itself.

He pressed his lips together, then took a deep breath. The blades are going to come back soon. I need to check it now, before anything happens to it. Gritting his teeth, he sent his divine sense into the finger again.

Throbbing pain. Hui forced himself not to retract his divine sense. Bracing himself, he waited. The pain faded slowly, diminishing bit by bit. Ever so slowly, it faded.

Hui nodded to himself. Ah, okay. It only hurts immediately after the contraction. If I create a new body for myself, wait a minute or two, and then put my soul into it, I should be able to avoid the pain! Or, at least, avoid the worst of it.

He considered for a moment, then nodded. I might as well try to create a compressed body. In the worst case, I feel some pain. In the best case, I can create an even more powerful body for myself!

Ah, its too bad I have such little talent with body cultivation. If I had more talent, I would be able to level up from this punishment alone, and I wouldnt need to go to such lengths to grow stronger. Luckily, I do have some small talent with qi manipulation and figuring out new techniques! Thus, I can create workarounds for my weaknesses.

Drawing his compressed qi out, Hui burned his body away again. This time, he lit all the ashes at once. As the blades drew back, he created a new, full-sized body for himself, then, from the outside, pressed the compressed qi inside.

His new body condensed, instantly dropping down to doll-sized. Hui watched it from outside for a few moments, holding his breath, then jumped into the body. Please dont hurt please dont hurt please dont