Runar floated carefully in the Infinite Qi Realm, his Rule-fused body glowing with soft golden-silver light.
Through the soul connection, he watched his clone body settle into sleep with Celestia back in Suite 4701. That part of him was at rest. This part needed to prepare for the hardest cultivation session of his life.
Alright. Time to get serious about this soul problem.
He'd spent almost six subjective years in here already during the breakthrough process. Now he needed to spend decades more fixing the imbalance that breakthrough had created.
Through his awareness, he could feel the Eternal Nexus Ascension technique running passively in the background. It had always been designed to cultivate body, qi, and soul simultaneously—that was one of its core strengths. Even now, the technique was working to refine his soul, tempering it slowly and steadily according to the cultivation method's parameters.
But that was the problem. Slowly and steadily.
