After a long time, Jaden Shiba awoke again.
The searing pain had disappeared replaced by a numb pain in his meridians. The liquid had returned to its origin and the pool was tranquil.
Unexpectedly, he felt a warm sensation swirling through his body. After this sensation made a complete cycle, he felt extraordinarily comfortable and his body had increased in strength. All his previous injuries were gone.
Blood Qi!
It dawned on him the pool finally brought him some benefits! The thing flowing through his meridians was clearly the Blood Qi which only warriors could obtain!
Within the memory of the other Jaden Shiba, he came to know that Profound Qi was the source of power for cultivators. It was the foundation for warriors to support and release powerful martial arts.
Cultivators were ranked into ten realms, according to the strength of their Profound Qi. These were Body Refining, Qi Condensing, Profound Core, Earth Immortal, Nirvanic Change, Life Transformation, Earth God, Sky God, Fiend God and God King with fist two realm containing ten leves and after that each realm containing three levels.
Cultivators were the most powerful individuals in this world. Profound Qi determines the status one would have. One could be a Cultivator as long as he had the slightest amount of Profound Qi.
Most people couldn't get Profound Qi throughout their entire life. Once obtained, they could strengthen it simply by training. Therefore, as long as a warrior possessed Qi, they would always have their own place in this world.
As the weak Profound Qi gently circulated throughout his body, Jaden Shiba came to his senses. Even if he couldn't go back to his world, he wouldn't starve to death here. Just then he noticed that the blood cocoon was still tightly wrapped around him.
Jaden Shiba spared no effort to struggle.
"Crack!"
A big slit cracked open on the blood cocoon, and Jaden Shiba jumped out. Looking around, he found himself in that odd cave.
However, the pool had all dried up with a small puddle of liquid left.
A huge glittering cocoon, as thin as a wafer, towered in the center of the empty pool. However, after Jaden Shiba only glanced at it, a small flame ignited at the bottom of the cocoon. The flame grew wildly and started to burn the cocoon. In a few minutes, the cocoon was all burned to nothingness.
A white light sparkled in the dry pool. An old ring with intricate black vein designs quietly lying there.
Jaden remembered that this ring was the last thing of this body's mother. After a few seconds of hesitation, he stepped in again, picked up the ring, and wore it on the ring finger of his left hand.
The ring carried a warmth that made Jaden Shiba feel strongly connected to it as if the ring had become a part of his body. An image of a small room filled with different things appeared in his mind.
Jaden Shiba was shocked and tried to take off the ring immediately, only to find the ring had been firmly stuck onto his ring finger like an unmovable boulder. No matter how hard he tried, the ring wouldn't move an inch.
Shaking the ring around for a moment, he realized that there was no longer anything unusual with it, thus Jaden Shiba started to analyze the situation. He concentrated on the image of the room, the room was filled with different types of things like armour, books, gold and other things. After thinking of something, he tried to grab a glass bottle from the room that was showing in his head and suddenly a glass bottle appeared in his hand.
He was shocked by this situation, so tried this a few more times with different objects and he noticed that he could only retrieve normal objects and things, but when tried to summon books or armour he wasn't able to do that, may be they were some kind of magical artefacts, so taht why he wasn't able to summon them as according to the previous owner's memory you need suitable amount of strength to wield specific weapons and armours. So, without wasting time, he summoned a glass bottle and stored the remaining liquid in the pool. After that he started analysing the situation of the pool.
Soon, Jaden concluded that all the liquid in the pool went into his body!
The pool was ten square meters in size. Though not huge, the liquid it contained would weigh at least a few tons. Even an elephant couldn't hold that much liquid inside its body!
Jaden turned pale. He subconsciously looked around and wanted to see how his body had changed. Had it swelled up?
When he looked, Jaden was startled again! His whole body was changed, all his injuries were gone and his previous weak body changed into a Olympic Swimmer's body with compact muscles filled with vitality and power.
"Guru~ Guru~!!"
His stomach began rumbling and he suddenly felt ravenous. He thought he could almost devour an elephant.
But, the cave had nothing edible. He glanced at the dry pool and was sad to find that he could no longer return to his world.
Jaden decided to find a weapon. However, after looking around, he found quite a few of them but most of them were either rusted or destroyed, not useful to him anymore.
Disappointed, Jaden could only leave empty-handed from the stone cave. Jaden observed his surroundings for a while and heard the sound of water in the distance.