As for Rune Enhancent, there was no rush. Frey was right here, unconscious and going nowhere. Moon could copy his class whenever he wanted. The skill would be available to him the mont he needed it. Cultivation ca first.
Moon turned his focus internally and found the first acupoint that he had been carefully threading with [Advanced Elental Body]. The threads connecting Advanced Elental Body to its foundation were thicker than they had ever been, pulsing faintly with each breath he took. The spiritual energy inside the acupoint swirled around them, waiting to be fully assimilated in.
Moon began to channel.
The five elents stirred around his body. Fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning. Each one orbiting him in slow currents. The wooden walls of the crevice creaked faintly from the pressure, but held.
Moon fed the elents into the acupoint one by one, weaving each thread deeper into the foundation with a focused expression. Rushing the process, taking shortcuts was a big no. Moon took his ti with every layer, letting it settle in, accommodating its presence before moving to the next.
The hours ahead belonged to this.
The first hour passed in silence.
Moon sat motionless, his breathing shallow, his focus entirely consud by the acupoint in his stomach. The five elents were slowly feeding a thin thread of energy into his foundation.
It was delicate work. The threads didn't simply attach themselves to the acupoint, Moon had guide them, coaxing them into the right position, then holding them there long enough for the spiritual energy to accept them. If he pushed too hard, the thread would snap and he would have to start that section over. If he was too gentle, the thread would drift away from the foundation and dissolve.
There was a rhythm to it that needed catering too, and his own breathing, heartbeat, and flow of mana needed to be dialed in for everything to proceed smoothly. Finding that rhythm was the key. Once he locked into it, the threads responded naturally, settling into the foundation like roots sinking into soil.
The second hour brought the first real challenge to Moon.
He had woven fire, water, and earth into the foundation without issue. Their threads sat firmly in the acupoint, intertwined with the spiritual energy in a way that felt stable to him. But when he tried to weave wind into the sa space, it began to resist.
The wind thread pushed against the earth thread. The two elents didn't want to coexist in the sa layer, as if they were life long nesis. Every ti Moon guided the wind into position, the earth moved in response, destabilizing the section he had just completed.
'This is really troubleso, even with the strong foundation I have instilled into my acupoint, weaving them in was still a hassle with many elents involved in the process. Moon paused for a mont, he didn't force it any longer in fear of injury. He still rembered the words about injuring an acupoint, it wasn't sothing to be taken lightly.
He sat with the problem, turning it over in his mind nurous tis, trying to find an answer. The elents weren't fighting each other. They were following their nature. Earth was rigid, grounded, resistant to change, but could be molded with enough force and will. Wind on the other hand was fluid, restless, and constantly seeking movent. Placing them side by side in the sa layer created friction because their fundantal properties opposed each other.
'I need to change the structure.'
Rather than laying them flat in the sa plane, Moon tried sothing different. He wove the wind thread underneath the earth thread, creating a separate layer beneath it. The wind could move freely in its own space without disturbing the earth above.
The mont he made the adjustnt, both elents began to co-exist.
'So that's how it works. The elents don't need to share the sa layer. They need their own space within the foundation, arranged in a way that respects their nature.' Moon thought, his eyes widening in excitent.
This realization opened many pathways in his mind. He had been treating the acupoint like a flat surface, trying to lay everything side by side. But it wasn't flat, It was like a deep ocean with its own layers and dinsions.
There was space for each elent to occupy its own territory while still contributing to the whole.
The third hour was spent restructuring what he had already built. Moon carefully separated the fire, water, and earth threads into their own layers, repositioning each one based on what he now understood about their relationships. Fire sat at the core, the hottest and most volatile elent anchored at the center where its energy could radiate outward. Water wrapped around it, a cooling layer that balanced the heat. Then, Earth ford a shell above both, providing structure and stability.
Wind found its place beneath everything, a current that ran along the bottom of the foundation, keeping the energy circulating so nothing grew stagnant.
With these four elents harmonizing, that left one elent only. Lightning.
Moon hesitated. Lightning was different from the other four. It was an advancent elent, it didn't exist independently the way the basics did. It was a product of their collision.
If he tried to give it its own layer, it might reject the structure entirely. But if he wove it between the fire and wind layers, where elents already existed, it might find a natural ho.
With no other ideas at hand, Moon tried it.
The lightning thread slid between fire and wind, and for a tense mont, nothing happened. Then the thread began to vibrate. The energy from both adjacent layers blended into it, feeding the lightning from both sides. The thread grew brighter, denser, and locked itself into position with a firmness that none of the other elents had matched.
Moon let out a slow breath.
'Thankfully, I was right…Lightning doesn't need its own space, it lives in the space between.'
By the fourth hour, Moon had officially completed his foundation for the first acupoint.
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