Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

"You have a very weird taste in colors," the golden dragon wasn't satisfied even with the look of the gears.

Arthur went to the cape and started taking the mold out slowly and did the same with the helmet and boots. When he finished, he started wearing them.

Adding the pair of leg guards and boots to him made the energy absorption rate soar for a level higher. When he put on the helmet, he felt he had gained two levels at least, yet the weight on his head was much worse than he anticipated.

"Time to test that cape, hehehe," he held the heavy cape which had a curved upper end suited for his neck and shoulders. The moment he put it on his body, he felt a great gush of energy assaulting him, making even his soul shudder.

"Damn! It's at least five to six levels higher," he heavily breathed while assessing his dantian and meridians. "my energy is all condensed and thickened. I need to break through now."

He didn't waste time and sat on the ground. As his cape wasn't that flexible like his helmet, he had to lay on his back, on it, so he could start his cultivation breakthrough.

"You are such a mad dragon!"

"Ding! A mad mage."

"Shut up," he started to clear out his thoughts and delved deeply towards his dantian. These things looked much better than before. The star map was already like a shiny star in the middle of the ocean.

His energy all revolved around it. with the denser amount he had right now, it proved how much strong this star map was to help in moving all his energy, forming a giant whirlpool.

"How should I advance?" This was a dilemma he needed to fix rapidly. His absorbed energy became more intense with all his gears and now he started feeling pain coming from his meridians.

"The easiest way is to let my dantian absorb all these energy, refine it and make a new level of energy circulating in my body. But…" he paused as this was once the classic approach he even used before in his cultivation days.

He moved his attention up there, where his mental node was calmly controlling his brain meridians. "I now have such a gem, why use something common while having something special?"

He moved his gaze towards the node and a crazy thought popped up his mind at the moment. The quality of energy there seemed a lot higher than the amount of energy in his dantian. And after all this thinking and innovation, the amount got pumped up as well.

"Having two separate energies isn't fun, I can't even use the mental node to its fullest potential in such a situation. I need to change that," he decided and the next moment he started regulating his breaths, took out many pieces of meat and stuffed them into his mouth.

"I hope I won't die of this," he prayed before starting to hit the breakthrough.

The trigger was to start manipulating the energy to stop moving. Stillness might seem bad, yet any progress always started after stillness.

Yet to affect all this energy and make what he wanted was a risk. He started controlling his spiritual energy inside his meridians first, as these were the easiest to control.

The moment the energy stopped moving rapidly, decelerated to a low speed, he started moving to his next phase.

He controlled the energy inside the dantian to move slower. He didn't make it stop completely, yet this took some time and proved to be challenging even for him.

"Finally," as he reached a very low speed, he took a deep breath, preparing himself for the next wave of pain he would face.

"Move!"

As he started to act on the next stage of his plan, he started pushing the small star map out of his dantian. This proved to be more challenging, and very painful.

Each inch the star map crossed caused him severe pain more than what he felt when he opened his meridians for the first time. The issue wasn't in the size of the star map, but the quality of it.

It was too much domineering on his dantian, not even his meridians. And he pushed it forwards outside his dantian to his meridians, then upward towards his mental node.

"What is this crazy dragon doing?" the golden dragon asked in doubt.

"Ding! From his actions, I believe he changed the center of his dantian to be in his mind."

"Is this good? Or bad?" the golden dragon asked, "I know nothing about this bizarre way of using power."

"Ding! I also frankly dunno the answer to that," the system honestly replied before adding, "Ding! And from his memories from before, I doubt he even knows the answer too."

"Mad dragon, he is a mad dragon."

Arthur was in his own world where his body was assaulted with an endless wave of pain. He knew if he stopped pushing the star map for even a second, his meridians would be severed and his dantian would be damaged.

It was a one way risk, and he knew the consequences before taking such a crazy step.

Yet he still took it.

"C'mon," he gritted his teeth while his breathing started to be difficult to maintain. He didn't know that, but his human body was now vigorously twitching on the ground.

He was in severe danger, yet he only focused on one goal.

"C'mon, you're almost there."

He tried before to push his energy into the brain meridians, and failed. This was due to the high disparity between the two energies in quality. And that was what he was betting on now.

His star map was the highest thing right now in his dantian, nodes, and meridians. So he bet the mental node and its meridians wouldn't decline it joining them.

And the gains? He knew he would gain so much if he succeeded, yet he might lose everything if he did any slight error and failed.

"Almost there," he was using all his will to push the star map towards the last inch, breaking through the invisible barrier of the mental node.