In a normal situation, one pill would be enough for an attempt at comprehending a force diagram. But Elder Storm Hawk said that he shouldn't be afraid of an overdose.
Technically, two pills should be enough for an overdose. So he took two pills first and waited to see the effect.
As he had expected, his body began to riot after taking two pills. His heartbeat increased, and his body became flooded with adrenaline.
He won't die yet, but he is in danger of having his heart explode. He thought about his situation and decided to take another pill.
As soon as he took the third pill, he opened the force diagram and focused on it. Soon, the world disappeared around him, and he became unconscious.
In his unconscious state, his heart slowed down instead of increasing because of the third blood pill. His blood flow slowed down, and his body temperature cooled down.
This time, there was no green glow on his body. But his unconscious state lasted for one day before he woke up.
When he woke up, he was a little disappointed that he hadn't returned to the tenth transformation. But he was grateful that his body hadn't become thinner and his cultivation hadn't regressed again.
He shrugged and said, "It is better than nothing."
Then he checked the progress of the everlasting wood intent. What he saw surprised him again.
TECHNIQUES
A: RANK 1
1. Everlasting Wood Intent : 0.1% >>> 1.1% Mastery.
2. Savage Sword Weapon Technique: 100% Mastery.
His progress in the mastery of the everlasting Wood intent had increased by a whole 1%. This is surprising because when he was trying to comprehend the dominating fire intent, each attempt could only bring him a progress of 0.1% each time he studied the force diagram.
He asked himself, "Has my power of comprehension increased, or is this Everlasting Wood Art easy to learn?"
He doesn't think that the Everlasting Wood Art is easy to learn because it is a divine ability that can be used to cultivate both the body and energy and requires the blood essence of a rank 5 being for it to perform adequately.
Dominating Fire Intent didn't require so many things and isn't capable of doubling his lifespan or healing him of his injuries. Yet, he was able to make ten times as much progress in one sitting.
Of course, one sitting of Everlasting Wood Art is much longer than that of Dominating Fire Intent. He needs one day to finish comprehending the Everlasting Wood Intent once, while he could comprehend the Dominating Fire Intent in one hour.
He can comprehend the Dominating Fire Intent three times in a day. Even so, the output of comprehending Everlasting Wood Intent is still higher.
The only things he can think of that can make his progress in comprehending the Everlasting Wood Intent so fast are the boost he got from the leveling up of Mountain Karma and the possibility that he is very compatible with the Everlasting Wood Intent.
He is leaning on the former because he is not sure of the latter. He is not sure about his compatibility with the Everlasting Wood Intent and the extent of its effect on the progress of comprehending it. But he suspects that Mountain Karma had a lot to do with it.
He shook his head in wonder and let his mind calculate how much time it will take him to reach the second mortal coil.
He can earn a progress of 0.3% in Dominating Fire Intent in one day. That is 3.333 times less than the amount of progress of Everlasting Wood Intent in the same amount of time.
By his estimates, it will take him less than 100 days to finish comprehending the Everlasting Wood Intent. It is more than three times faster than the time it took him to comprehend the Dominating Fire Intent. The only caveat is that he will have to eat a lot of blood pills.
Despite taking three pills, his body still shrunk. So he was in a worse state than before he began the second attempt at comprehending the force diagram. But he believes that this is worth it for the progress that he is making.
He shook his head and said to himself, "Let's not jump to conclusions yet. This boost of 1% might just be a fluke. After all, the first time I did it, it only gave me a progress of 0.1%. I should ask Elder Storm Hawk how others who cultivated the Everlasting Wood Art fared to gather more information."
He also wants to tell her about how three superior rank 2 blood pills weren't enough to quell his need for vitality. He wants to tell her that he will be taking four pills next so that she can start to prepare more pills for him.
He picked up the identity card and called her. She accepted the connection immediately.
She asked, "So, how was it?"
He replied, "I think I'm making progress. I'm not sure by how much, but I believe that there is progress because I took three pills, and it still wasn't enough to prevent my body from shrinking. I also dreamt of being a tree for a day, but it felt like years."
She said, "That's good. Keep working hard. I'll support you with as many pills as you need."
He asked, "How much time does it take others to comprehend the Everlasting Wood Intent?"
She hummed as she tried to recollect some information. Then she replied, "It all depends on compatibility with the technique. At the earliest, it took 100 days. This was achieved by someone with an 82% wood element affinity. At the longest, it took a year. This was the case for someone with a 26% wood element affinity."
"Wood affinity is not the only factor affecting compatibility either. There are also Life Activity and Spiritual Acuity because the Everlasting Wood Intent affects every part of one's existence and needs all three of them."