Pov: Vik
After a good sleep, I woke up, yawning loudly. I remembered losing consciousness, so my disciples must have put me to bed. Pushpa was sleeping on my chest.
Looking around the room, I saw my disciples: Sherry, Layla, Lu Ran, Winston, and Louriel. They all looked at me with different expressions. Louriel, in particular, had an amused look.
Confused by this, I immediately asked the system, "System, why are all of them looking at me like I tried to scam them? System, tell me truthfully, what did you do while I was sleeping?"
But the system didn't answer. Instead, it lashed out at me, saying, "Host, you just needed to sleep for one more minute, and I almost got you a girlfriend."
I tried to ask more, but the system continued.
System: "Here I am, trying my best to get you to mingle, but it's like you've taken an oath to remain single. Host, I'm tired of playing the role of Cupid for you."
System: "Happy single life!"
"Ding! The title Snake of Singularity has become stronger."
Vik: (*_*)
I don't know what the system did, but I thought it was better to ignore it. I focused back on the situation. I looked at my disciples and called out to Lu Xiaoran, asking, "Lu Xiaoran, how long have I been sleeping here?"
He quickly answered, "Master, you've been sleeping here since last night. It's almost afternoon now."
Hearing him, I sighed in relief. At least I didn't sleep too long. I then asked my disciples about the situation in the city and other challenges they faced. They told me they hadn't encountered any danger because Winston helped them.
I looked at Louriel and Winston and genuinely thanked them. For some reason, Louriel looked at me with a meaningful smile. I chose to ignore it for now. Back to work, I stood up from the bed and told everyone to go to the living room while I freshened up.
Once everyone left, only Pushpa and I were left in the room. Alone, I internally screamed at my system, "System! Why am I not feeling my cultivation?"
System: "Host! I don't know, but since you used that Prana energy, your cultivation seems sealed."
Hearing the excuse from this incompetent system, I kept my calm and said, "System, you are really useless. Okay, show me my status, and let me think about this problem."
"DING! SHOWING HOST STATUS."
"Name: Vik
Age: 100 years
Bloodline: Poison Overlord Naaga
Physique: Void body, Cosmic stellar body, Quantum magic circle, prototype World-seed foundation.
Affinity: Omni element, #!? unknown fire, Void element, #?! unknown
Realm: Nascent soul realm {regressed}(early stage), 6th circle magic realm{regressed} (early stage), 6th stage body refining realm {regressed}(early stage), #$@###### 1st stage of Root Chakra (Muldhara) in Kundalini #@$$@#, Prana energy level 1
Possession: 8000 medium-grade spirit stones, 700 high-grade spirit stones
Artifact: none
Spiritual fire: unknown fire
Cultivation techniques: Nirvana Qi refining technique, Chaos titan body refining technique, Nuclear spirit gathering technique, Void magic technique, Abyss soul refining technique, Maya manifestation technique (unused), Quantum magic technique.
Special powers: Shape-shifting, Poison mastery
Accepted disciples: Lu Xiaoran, Roman Blackwood
System reward: none
System mall: available (tap to view)
Teaching building: Anonymous hall
System mission: Complete 100 successful classes with your students.
Evaluation: a mysterious and arrogant snake."
Seeing my status, I asked the system more about my situation, and through our chat, I finally understood the problem. Taking Pushpa with me—who wanted to sleep more—I went into the bathroom. There, I lay in the bathtub filled with cold water, with Pushpa on my chest.
I now know that what I'm facing isn't just a sealing of my cultivation. In fact, my cultivation isn't sealed at all. If that were the case, I would have reverted to my snake form. But I'm still human, and the spiritual energy in my body is working just fine.
The only problem is that when I try to use it, I encounter difficulties, and I know why. It's because of the prana energy. Before harnessing prana energy, I was already using three different types of power systems, but I kept them in harmony since they were all at the same level of cultivation.
But with prana energy, I only have the first level. Normally, this shouldn't affect my other power systems, but prana energy is much stronger than spiritual energy. It has made my spiritual energy act docile. Following the prana energy, my spiritual energy is releasing in small amounts, contrary to my cultivation.
For now, I can barely access the cultivation level of the Nascent Soul realm. I don't know how, but this prana energy—despite being at level one—is almost as strong as the Nascent Soul energy of the spiritual energy system. I don't know if this is good or bad. I feel happy to have a much stronger energy to cultivate aside from spiritual energy, but I also feel sad that my cultivation has regressed by one major realm.
Thinking about the energy, I tried to use my power to visualize the energy inside me. I could clearly see my spiritual energy flowing, alongside the prana energy. The prana energy flowed on a much greater scale as it is part of my life. And the most hideous color among the energies is my kundalini energy, still present below my spine, looking like a ball of absolute nothingness.
Now I just need to cultivate my prana energy to the next level. This prana cultivation doesn't have a name, unlike spiritual cultivation, since no one has named its levels. I'll keep calling it levels for now.
After bathing, I dressed and headed downstairs to the living room. I saw everyone there. Sherry was serving food to everyone. Sitting with them, I chatted. Layla and Lu Ran kept thanking me for saving Lu Xiaoran and Roman. They told me that things have stabilized, so they plan to return to the Lu family to reclaim it.
Hearing this, I told Lu Xiaoran and Roman to go with them, as they also had scores to settle with Lu Xiaoran's cousin. After that, only Louriel, Winston, Sherry, and Lina remained.
Lina told me she would research the Heaven Suppressing Field. Maybe she's trying to recreate it using technology. Sherry was just doing house chores. I had known for a while that this girl had feelings for Roman. Seeing her dedication, I thought about including her as a temporary disciple.
Now, finally at the most important topic, I turned to Louriel and Winston. Why? Because they wanted to show me the situation in the Azure Mountains. Louriel told me I would be surprised to see it, so I followed them.