I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 190: Progress

Since it was her turn to watch, Valentina of course had her surveillance skill active, as opposed to normally when she would trust her teammates and prefer to not waste energy on those skills.

She only gave him a once over before going back to play with the two snakes.

Taking a seat next to her, he initiated the conversation.

"You know, I am out of danger."

She looked up at him, and smiled after a moment.

"Oh that. Yea, I figured that when you didn't call for the team to stay together. Coupling that with how you had the leisure to be tired and sleepy, I guess everything went well huh."

Eryndor shrugged.

"You're smarter than I realized."

There was a slight pause before she responded.

"Well, I do admit I wasn't really smart in the beginning. But you know, people learn, people change."

"Yea…"

He took a pause before asking the doubt he had on his mind.

"By the way, I had this question on my mind for quite a while now. You know that treasure you used to contract Yin?

"It allowed you to contract a second beast at Beast Seeker realm, which only allows one beast.

"If you could always do that, why didn't you do it sooner? Two beasts are always better than one right?

"Sooo…maybe there is some side effect which you didn't tell us about? Maybe some loss of potential in Yin?"

Eryndor looked straight in Valentina's eyes, who didn't look away either.

A moment later, he briefly sensed a completely different realm emanating from her.

It was just for a moment.

Maybe a fraction of a second.

But he definitely didn't sense it wrong.

His right eye twitched. With cautiousness in mind, he didn't say anything, but gave her a look which asked 'really?'.

What he had sensed just now was the aura of the stage one Beast Keeper realm.

Beast Keeper was the second level of the Beast Taming power system.

He didn't find it odd. There were skills out there which allowed one to hide their stage or even realms.

It was oftentimes useless against those at a higher realm than you, but since Valentina was at second level, which was essentially higher than everyone else except Edward, who probably didn't want to bother with what was going on in the group.

It could also be that Valentina's skill was really good and he didn't sense it either.

Valentina nodded.

So is that why she was able to contract a second beast? No wait, that still doesn't make sense as to why she chose to do it at that particular moment.

There was all the time in the world for her to contract it earlier.

Also, I definitely saw a 'fruit' which she fed to Yin, it was small, and her actions were quick, but I remember seeing it for sure.

Eryndor tilted his head, and told her the doubts he had. Valentina's eyebrows raised as she answered.

"Oh? Your surveillance skill is THAT good? It can even spot a fruit that small at that distance? And you were paying attention?"

Eryndor gazed at her silence.

"I got the answer when you tried to change the topic."

Without waiting for her to say anything, he shook his head with a slight smile.

"I'll repay your favor."

Valentina understood that there was no use saying anything else.

Eryndor stood up and approached her, squatting down, he booped the black snake which was curiously looking at him.

"Sorry little guy. I'll find some way to recover your potential soon."

Valentina was silent throughout the time as Eryndor retreated back to his tent.

Phew… time to cultivate.

Eryndor thought, laying down on his inflatable mattress.

As he began circulating Qi throughout his meridians, he quickly noticed a fact.

Hmmm, passive cultivation is truly great. It has almost pushed me to the middle level of stage seven.

He popped in a Qi Gathering pill and began circulating his Qi with all the control he could muster, which was fifty percent of the total Qi reserves.

I hope I go past this limit someday, it's getting tiring to stay at fifty percent control.

Eryndor knew that fifty percent was by no means less. Heck, there was very likely no one out there who had such control over their Qi.

Even twenty nine to thirty percent was widely considered as a peak control level, because people said it was a big threshold.

Surpassing it was extremely difficult, he didn't know if there was anyone out there who had a control as good as him.

Hehe, I feel a little smug all of a sudden.

Immediately though, he controlled his feelings. This fifty percent wasn't a result of his hard work.

It was given to him on a platter. This control was what he already had, also what allowed him to passively cultivate, use extended vision, and also use his cultivation arts.

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Yes, over time he had finally learned to do all three at the same time. It was difficult but he overcame it.

A bit more.

He thought while gazing at his reserves.

They were increasing steadily.

The first realm of the cultivation, Qi Gathering realm, counted progress based on the amount of Qi you could store.

Of course, it was miraculous enough that it changed accordingly.

If a normal cultivation practice technique needed hundred units of Qi to break through to the next stage, then an enhanced cultivation practice technique, depending on the enhancement it provided to Qi reserves, would similarly need that much more amount of Qi units to break through to the next realm.

For example if an enhanced cultivation practice technique gave a thirty percent boost to the Qi reserves, then you would similarly need one hundred thirty units of Qi to break through to the next realm, as compared to hundred of a normal practice technique.

Finally, he felt that he had breached a minor obstacle.

It definitely wasn't like the effects which took place when one broke through in stages.

Time to continue cultivating, or I can switch to my second form?