Chapter 263 - Eclipse

Nick spent the next three months shoring up any flaws he had from getting his dantian crippled such as using fiend energy to move the shattered shards back in one place. this is not to say that he fixed his dantian rather that he made it easier for the seed to do its work. he had done this with the hope that if the seed didn't need to use more energy to repair his dantian it would give him a better physique. if questioned why he was so focused on the physique nick would say that he has seen what people with them are capable of. nick might have been a nature child but that didn't mean he was better than those with physiques , no in fact he would be slightly worse since the benefits of being a nature child still required a good amount of effort to succeed but the same isn't true of innate physiques. even the lowest innate physique naturally draws in qi even if the person with it isn't aware. this means that people with innate physiques are natural born cultivators that only suffer qi deviation if they force themselves into it and frankly nick wanted that.

On the day of the eclipse nick set up a special formation on the top of the mountain that his cave is located on. this formation was specifically designed to draw in the unique qi that the eclipse created like a whale swallowing water and channel it towards the center of the formation where nick was sitting. now nick had all of his preparations complete and was only waiting for the eclipse to begin. thankfully for nick he didn't have to wait long as within five minutes a strange qi was beginning to fill nicks surrounding which meant the eclipse was starting. nick didn't use the seed immediately since his instincts told him to wait so he trusted them to do right by him and waited. not more than ten minutes later nick was glad he listened as the unique qi was beginning to spike at a rapid rate with no signs of stopping in sight. nick knew it was the perfect time now so he swallowed the thumb sized seed that was starting to glow. at first he wondered if maybe it was a dud but then he felt an agonizing pain far worse than any body refinement rip through his body starting from his dantian.

Nick spasmed on the ground with his mouth open in a silent scream as pulse after pulse of pain wracked his body. in the place where nicks dantian pieces were located the seed sat and spun drawing in each and every piece one after the other into itself. each shard taken in sent a wave of pain through nick with each wave coming faster and faster as the unique qi grows denser. soon the last piece of nicks old dantian entered the seed and nick lay upon the ground breathing heavily.