Ankit exited the game.
He then sat on the ground and murmured to himself, "Now that I have made this many techniques, that's enough. Now I should begin creating the new stage.
In Stage 2, I am going to open both upper cores because they are complementary to each other.
But I have to take one step at a time. First, I am going to open the sacral core. Its nature is water, so I have to use water-type essence flow.
But this type of essence flow is very scarce here.
I have to go to the ocean or underground water bodies or a pond or sea, etc., where water-type essence flow is in abundance..."
He didn't want to go far away from his parents' location, so he decided to first find water bodies in this mountain range. If he didn't find any, then he would think about going to faraway places.
Thinking about it, Ankit got up and began to search. Using his 25 km radius sensing power, he quickly found a pond in the depths of the mountain range. He went there and quickly reached that place.
After examining the pond with his Aqua Veil Vision technique, he concluded that this pond had water-type essence flow, but the quantity wasn't much.
Then he searched the whole mountain range and only found three water bodies, but all of them were like the first pond. The quantity was low.
Ankit wanted to end his search because he concluded this would be sufficient to open his sacral core, but before ending the search, he thought he should also search for underground water bodies for unexpected needs.
Ankit then quickly used his technique from the earth series, Terra Glide.
The ground trembled faintly as the essence seeped into the earth, weaving with unseen threads below. Without a sound, Ankit vanished beneath the surface, becoming one with the underground currents.
Ankit navigated through the subterranean landscape effortlessly, gliding underground.
He began to search for underground water bodies. Ankit dove around 100 km deep and finally found a large water body.
This water body was about 250 km long, its width about 50 km. Its depth reached 4 km.
Ankit had never seen an ocean—not in this life nor in his future life. So Ankit was stunned by seeing this water body.
He quickly used his Aqua Veil Vision technique from his water series.
What he saw quickly made him smile.
Because he saw that this water body held water-type essence flow in greater quantity. And it wasn't just quantity—its quality was also much greater than normal water bodies he had seen before.
He thought that this mountain range was too good. It not only produced essence flow continuously but also held this big and powerful water body.
Ankit then murmured, "So this mountain range not only produces essence flow but also influences these water bodies around the mountain range to produce water-type essence flow."
Ankit then sat in a meditative position and began to open his sacral core.
Closing his eyes, Ankit drew a deep breath. Slowly, he gathered cool, fluid Essence Flow within his body, feeling it ripple and pulse like a gentle stream. Channeling it toward his lower abdomen, he visualized a swirling pool—clear, vibrant, alive—with currents of blue light dancing beneath his skin.
A soft bubbling resonance echoed in his spirit as the core began to glow—radiant azure spreading warmth and vitality through his entire being.
The sensation was like awakening a spring long hidden beneath the earth, powerful yet nurturing, endless yet ever-changing. Ankit's connection deepened with this new center of Essence Flow, a living heart of water now beating strong within him.
He smiled inwardly. This was only the beginning, but the foundation of his journey deeper into Stage 2 had begun—fluid, powerful, and unyielding as water itself.
With the opening of this sacral core, he also saw the energy pathways connected to the sacral core location. There were a total of 5,000 energy pathways. But Ankit knew there were more pathways, and he would find them in the future.
Like root core energy pathways, the sacral core also had energy pathways that were small and big.
He had to connect them with the core, then open them with the help of water-type essence flow, and lastly fill them.
But Ankit wouldn't do this right now. Because after opening the sacral core, he had to gather water-type essence flow.
And for efficiency, he also made a cyclone specially for this sacral core.
With the help of this cyclone, Ankit could now gather water-type essence flow quickly and fill his core in just 1 day.
So he started to focus on gathering water-type essence flow.
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When Ankit was visualizing this core, he had a choice to make it bigger, but Ankit didn't want to waste much time. He had already decided to make the root core bigger in the future. So why should he waste his time making this core bigger?
Ankit's sacral core size was the same as the root core size.