As the creature regained consciousness, he was surprised to see everyone in front of him and the dire condition of most of them, as he wrote: "What happened here?"The shadow read and said to the creature, "You were out of qi. You slept for a week. If your subordinate hadn't come in, I wouldn't have known you were in this state." The creature became even more confused."How does that have anything to do with you and the deer being exhausted? Didn't I heal?" the creature asked, but the shadow shook his head and spoke, "Unless you can step into the vessalous stage and gain an attribute, you cannot gain qi passively. Even I have to struggle after each breakthrough for the same reason.""But why were you so exhausted? Even if you were at the peak of qi condensation, it shouldn't have taken this long to fill your core. Did your core mutate?" the shadow asked in confusion. The creature wrote, "I am not in qi condensation. If my previous estimation was correct, I am at the peak of the Genesis Stage. The reason I am like this is also because I failed the tribulation multiple times in a row." The shadow spat out blood and asked, "You took 2 weeks to get there?!" The creature wrote, "Not weeks. It took me 1 day and a quarter of the next day, to be precise. I had been sleeping since then." The shadow spat out even more blood as he spoke, "You are more monstrous than the so-called children of gods. The strongest one had taken 5 days to reach the Genesis peak, and you did it in 1 and a half days. If word gets out, everyone would attack you!"The creature hearing this felt a bit of pride but he hid it and asked "Anyways, how do i step into vessalous stage exactly?' and the shadow spoke "have you tried fusing your core with heaven and earth?" and the creature used a tube to nod and the shadow spoke "it may have been because you have two cores, my book is for those with only one but for two hmm" the shadow thought for a long time.Blade heard their conversation and spoke "Master if you cannot hold two blades in one hand then why not hold one in both of them?" and the shadow was confused at first but soon his eyes widened as he spoke "That's actually genius, he is right why don't you try to fuse one core with heaven, one core with earth and try to make a channel between the two?"The creature understood as it went back to its consciousness, and this time, instead of fusing both, it extracted the qi from the earth and fused them into the first core as the core was filled with brownish fumes inside, and the creature could feel the smell of earth and the noises outside, even without leaving the consciousnessIt did the same again as he fused the heavenly qi into the second core making the core become transparent and cloudy, his senses also expanded he felt he had somehow become much lighter than before but he didn't stop to see as he dragged a chain of qi from the first to the second and as he expected the second core was unable to accept the qi as it was full of heavenly qi so he did the same from the second to the first as the second core accepted the earth qi and the earth core accepted the heaven qi, the two formed a bond as the cores stabalized and he felt his overall strength soar by leaps and bound'sthe creature was satisfied as he exited the the inner space but he was baffled again as the shadow, blade and the other puppets were eating roasted meat and berries, the smell was strong as the creature wrote "Hey! Where is my share?" and the shadow was surprised as he spoke "Oh you are done, its on the floor since the flesh is basically a part of you so don't be mad at me, it was his idea" the shadow spoke as he pointed at blade but blade saw it and smacked him in the head as it spoke "Don't throw your things at me!"The creature smirked inwardly as he ate his share and wrote "About the attributes... how do i gain them?" and the shadow thought and spoke "Attributes are not something we can open, they open on their own once we cultivate after vessalous stage even the king level are unable to answer the reason of its awakening nor can the beast emperors, why don't you try to channel qi like usual using your new cores?"The Creature nodded with a flesh tube as he went back into his consiousness and used his mentality to hold the ends of the chains from both sides and pulled them clockwise as the cores spun violently and qi flushed through them replacing each other in succession but suddenly a surge pain of pain occured at first it was a pinch then it increased rapidly as it felt as his core was being torn apart.outside the entire cave shook causing Blade to stand up in alertness but the shadow pulled its hand as he spoke "Relax, your master seems to have succeded, the attribute will cause pain for a short moment but it will be the greatest thing to have in the long run if your master succeds then there won't be many enemies for you anymore" and Blade couldn't help but lower his weapon while keeping his alertness on to be continued-->
