Mage And Wolf
Chapter 89

Chapter 89: Chapter 89

The Divine Fist is the talk of the town. Not only did they miss a day’s alchemy, but most of their daily fights, with even more disciples showing up with dried evidence of wet dreams on their clothing.

Both Elder Song and Sect Master Becky are highly pleased with the results. Elder Song has hidden himself away, saying he’s going to find a way to incorporate the relaxing incense that knocked everyone out right into the pill.

I don’t expect to see him for a few days at this rate, so I spend my day in peace, cultivating in this city full of varied energies.

Today is the day of my groups preliminary, with the very last set of groups. Elder Po tells me they put one Sect referral into every group, but 2 on the last day of prelims to keep the crowd interest. So I should expect at least one strong opponent.

I can feel my cultivation starting to bottleneck again, getting ready for a break through and I’m considering taking a Core Forming Pill to break through before the fight.

"Hey Elder Po. I don’t need to keep the level I register at, right?"

He looks me over. "Already? You know the most talented disciples take 2 years not 2 months to cultivate through the entirety of the Fortification Realm."

"I just don’t have that kind of patience Elder"

Everyone in the lobby laughs and Elder Ming waves me upstairs. "Go, break through and get to your fights on time"

The energy starts rising as I run up the stairs to Elder Po’s room, where I’m supposed to be staying, if I ever spend time inside the hotel and not outside cultivating in the fresh air.

I can feel the breakthrough starting, first reinforcing the Dragon Armor I embedded, which might currently be my strongest ability next to my claws, then flowing past it to remake every cell into a stronger version of itself.

Just before the energy peaks I take both a Core Forming and a Soul Forging pill at the same time. The energy his me like a truck, totally changing the nature of my breakthrough and remaking my cells all over.

After an hour it finally dies down and I see a large group of Elders staring at me.

"Hi?" I offer weakly, still shaky from the effects of the double pill ingestion.

"That was amazing" Elder Ye says to nobody in particular, deeply focused on her notebook.

"It was like you almost entirely skipped Condensation and Core Formation to awaken the Nascent Soul stage as a young immortal." She continues, still not looking up.

"Your Soul Strength is incredible" an Elder I cannot see offers. "You have nothing to fear from curses and soul based mystic attacks at the Mortal Realm level."

"And, you’ve broken through twice again" Elder Po laughs "Not only do you break through too fast, you don’t even do the odd numbered levels."

"In an even headed person after all" I laugh back at him.

"Even headed she says! Even headed!" I hear someone shout from the hallways. "Young Miss has made Fortification 10, entirely skipping 9"

The whole building is in an uproar, and both sect masters manage to slink their way into the room.

"She really did it."

"She did, but how?"

"How much do you think she’ll charge for the secret?"

Too many voices are going at once, so I sit and wait until they’re calmed down.

"Alright Young Miss. What is this double rank up technique going to cost me?" Sect Master Sun growls, obviously unhappy.

"I’ll give this one to you for free, since you’re giving me a dual cultivation sect for my hometown" I smile at him and he loses the worst of his serious demeanor.

"Find me an extremely talented disciple on the verge of breaking through. One who has been restraining their cultivation for a while to get a smooth breakthrough without resources. Once we have that, we can start."

He looks pretty bummed out, maybe we don’t have one?

"I have the perfect candidate" Sect Master Becky says "She has been stuck at Fortification 10 without a suitable partner for a while, but she was the fastest rising cultivator our Sect had ever seen. She’s almost to the point of breaking through to Condensation anyways, and she’s not in the fighting competition."

Wow, that fills literally every column.

"Alright, tell her to come here and bring a partner. She’ll need to be cultivating during the breakthrough for this to work."

A few minutes later a woman in her early 20s comes in, dragging a reluctant man who looks to be in his mid 30s, and at the early Core Formation stages with her.

"I told you, I don’t know about this, with all the people watching" our Inner Disciple tells her.

"come on, that makes it more exciting" she counters.

"Or everyone but me can wait outside?" I offer and he points at me.

"Yeah, what Young Miss said".

The Sect Masters shoo everyone out then return themselves. "Sorry son, we need to see the process so we can duplicate it later"

"We can all be naked if that helps?" Sect Master Becky offers and I give her an evil glare.

"It would actually. I’d feel less like a guinea pig without fully clothed Elders watching me do that."

Fine, it’s naked time. I’m not particularly body shy, but like the male disciple, it’s not a regular thing for me to just be naked in public.

Becky has climbed into Sect Master Sun’s lap at the foot of the bed, and I take the comfy chair, mostly engulfing my body. Sect Master Becky smiles when she sees my piercings, and the Disciples face turns a bit red before his partner reclaims his attention.

He leans back against the wall and and she settles down on top of him.

"Now focus your energy into making the break through, feel it start rebuilding your body."

I’m watching their eyes, as they’re face to face, and can see the spike of energy as she tries to break through to the Condensation Realm, her partner is much higher level, and it is enough to tip the scales, staring the break through into an unstoppable flow of rebuilt cells.

The energy begins to peak just as our participants do, and I shove 2 pills into each of their mouths. The feeling of the energy changes, spiking and surging, that feeling of massively increased Soul Power again present, though not as pronounced as when I did it for some reason.

Maybe because I’ve taken the pills before and built an unused potential? I’ll ask Elder Song later.

The pills set off a break through in the Shadowed Blade Disciple too, bringing him a half hour of surging energy as the pills and the level change feed off each other.

"Well that was majorly hot" Becky announces once they’re finished, passing out on the bed in a puddle of spent Qi and sweat.

"We’ll check their cultivation later, we need to discuss something in my room" Sect Master Sun announces, disappearing with Becky.

I don my Priestess robes, hood down and pick up my combat gear from the floor into my storage rings. Exiting the room and making sure it locks behind me I assure the waiting Elders that all is well and they simply need rest after an intense cultivation, making everyone chuckle.

It’s not long before the couple is awake and invites us in, now clean and dressed, the bedding a pile in the corner. The sect masters join us and begin the examination.

"Well that’s unexpected, Our Inner Disciple was close to a break though, but still months away. But he’s broken through and feels close to doing it again." Sect Master Sun says with an inquisitive tone.

"Dear Bella broke through not twice, as we hoped, but three times, making Condensation 3 from Fortification 10 in a single go."

"Yeah, if they don’t blow up, the effects are amazing" I praise the couples efforts and everyone turns to stare at me.

What?

"This could have caused me to explode, like actually explode and die?" The freshly advanced man cries in shock.

"Aren’t you glad you’re not a quick shot?" I reassure him "Don’t worry, if I thought you’d fail I likely wouldn’t have set off your break through"

"I was in danger too?" Bella asks and I shake my head.

"No, you had plenty of energy to work with once your break through started with such a high level partner feeding it while breaking through himself"

The Elders don’t look happy, they should be happy, right?

"It worked, right? Yeay me?" I ask uncertainly and the scowls don’t change.

"Anyhow, Sect Masters, that’s how you compound a breakthrough. And how you cause a compounded breakthrough to continue and increase the benefit to both parties in a dual cultivation scenario."

They just look astounded now.

"I’ll leave you to it, I’ve got a report to write for Elder Song. He wanted to know what happened if nobody died"

At this point I’m physically hurled out the window and into the street, landing in the laughing arms of Elder Song.

"I’ve got you. That little prank made me fail my pill creation, but it was so worth it to see the look on their faces"

"Right?" Maybe a bit of his personality did infect me when he transferred all those memories.