Why Cloud is stunned is because the first thing he feels when he reach this space is that the qi in the surroundings becomes extremely dense.
Even compared to the tunnel he took to get here, that has the most concentration of qi so far, this place is about five times denser.
Cloud felt like he enter a pool of water when he step into this space.
The surrounding qi is so dense it felt like water to the body.
After being stunned for a moment, Cloud snap back to reality and look around the space.
The space is pretty much empty.
Besides the unusually dense qi in the surroundings and a round, milky white object in the middle of the room, there is nothing else in this space.
After scrutinizing around the space to make sure it's save, Cloud take a walk toward the round object in the middle of the space.
When Cloud got closer to it, he can see that the object is supported by a part of the pale white wall that is jutting up from the ground like a small pillar.
The round object is above that pillar. It seems to be attached to the pillar.
The pillar is also a bit different compared to the wall in the surroundings.
Its color seems to be more concentrated than the wall.
If the wall is a pale white color then the small pillar is the same but thicker in color.
As Cloud stand before the milky white object, he can sense that the surrounding qi is gathering toward the object.
It seems to be absorbing the surrounding qi.
Cloud observe this phenomenon for a while more and after he is sure that it doesn't seem to be doing anything else, he stop his observation.
Cloud look around the space again and think.
This place seems to be a perfect place to cultivate.
If he cultivates here, he is sure that he can cultivate faster compared to using qi gathering pills.
Once that thought appears in his mind, he acts right away to realize that thought.
Cloud sit down cross-legged with his back against the small pillar.
He start cultivating right away to see how effective it is.
He doesn't care about the boar outside or the way out that he hasn't found at this time. His priority is to focus on cultivating at this moment.
Cloud completely immerse himself in his cultivation. He greedily absorb the surrounding qi and convert it bit by bit into five elements origin qi using the five elements origin art.
As Cloud continue cultivating, he start to find that his rate of cultivation is so much faster than when he cultivates usually, without any additional resources.
Within minutes he can sense that he is quickly approaching the threshold of Qi Gathering Third Stage.
As Cloud got closer and closer to the breakthrough, suddenly, his accumulated five elements qi inside his meridian start to gather into a point by itself.
All the five elements qi that's usually spreading thin throughout his meridian gather into a point.
It then start to travel across all his meridian channel after all his qi has gathered into one mass.
Wherever the qi mass pass through, the meridian slightly expand.
This is exactly like what happened before when Cloud was just about to breakthrough to the second stage.
Cloud doesn't understand how this can happen.
As far as he knows, breakthrough process should usually be like when he broke through to the first stage of qi gathering.
It should be that he must manually move his accumulated qi across his meridian to expand it.
But he doesn't need to to that now. The process has been done automatically without Cloud understand how.
But Cloud didn't think too much about it. He wouldn't understand how even if he think harder anyway so he stop thinking about it for now.
Maybe in the future, if he understand cultivation and the world better, he would be able to understand this phenomenon.
After making sure that everything is fine within his body, Cloud doesn't continue cultivating.
He has already stop gathering qi ever since his body start to automatically expand his meridian.
He only meditate to watch over the proses to make sure that everything is fine.
Once everything is done and Cloud is sure that there is no problem, Cloud doesn't go back to cultivating.
He hasn't breakthrough to the third stage by this point but he still choose not to continue.
It's not because he doesn't want to. But the process of expanding meridian is like tearing a muscle.
It is slightly damaged so that it can grow back bigger and stronger than before.
Because this is the case, Cloud doesn't continue cultivating.
Cultivating further would fill up the meridian and it might damage the meridian in his current condition.
So it's best to wait for the meridian to recover before continuing.
Not to mention that Cloud need to prepare for the strange phenomenon that always seems to happen when he breakthrough.
But luckily, Cloud doesn't need to wait for long.
The effect of the recovery pill is still active right now so it would also fasten the recovery process of his meridian.