Days blurred into weeks, then melted into months within the silent, sophisticated confines of Elias's sanctuary. While the Stellar Devourer Furnaces hummed quietly in distant corners of the cosmos, dutifully churning out the 'spring morning' pills, and the Perpetual Ascension Technique tirelessly refined Elias's very being, he found himself, surprisingly, still driven by an insatiable hunger for even greater understanding. The constant, effortless improvements to his body, soul, and Qi were incredible, but his mind, now clearer and sharper than ever before, sought the next impossible challenge.
His research lab had become his second home, a shimmering expanse of holographic projections and complex energy diagrams. Elias was usually a picture of calm, but today, a subtle tension lined his brow. He was grappling with a problem that even his boundless intellect found daunting: a new power source for his dantian, something beyond even his current Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Cores.
