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In the layered safety of his Territory, Kane gets to work. Of all the things he lacks at the moment, a comprehensive technique is one of them. He has methods for refining pills, he has combat techniques and martial arts, and he even has various offensively viable alchemical products he can use, but he wants something beyond all of that. Something that combines them and is greater than the sum of its parts.
He begins with separating the ambient qi he has granted this land into the five elements of fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. Thanks to the feedback loop of spirit herb growth he has kicked off, the density of this qi is reasonably high, even by his usual standards, almost surprising him as he gets to work. An ideal technique utilizes every one of these elements to affect a target, whether to defend, attack, refine, repair, or otherwise interact with. His Divine World Refining Formation does follow such a principle, but it is much too limited to bring to bear in a battle or use for fine adjustments. With his divine sense, he molds each element into a five-meter wide ring that rotates and swivels around a center point, which he maneuvers to be identical across all five rings.
"Too stiff."
He sets the rings aside for a moment, brewing a batch of a bright pink liquid using his divine sense as a cauldron, setting it alight to form a Pill Flame with which he manipulates the mixture. Sniffing it, he notes a similar effect to his own aphrodisiac pills, though substantially more mild, yet paradoxically more potent. He throws in a simple stone and it quickly rises out of the liquid, fluttering about the room with an otherwise unseen life before eventually falling to the ground as the effect wears off. Using his divine sense as this Pheromone, he infuses the two into each of the elemental rings, monitoring their growth as they warble and morph before him.
After a moment, each of the rings has morphed into the appearance of a limbless dragon of red, yellow, white, black, and blue coloration respectively, flying through the air as an ouroboros chasing its tail. He raises his hand and the five elemental dragons wrap around his hand, like a bird flying into its nest. He nods, pleased with his work. He sets to creating four more sets of these alchemy dragons, as he names them, which he uses to autonomously create various things he would've otherwise created himself. While they are somewhat childlike in demeanor, they are very intelligent and can utilize their natural properties with incredible ease, as such things are a part of their being. He sets them to work on a project he had in mind, teaching them his Lighting Detox Grand Magic and Pheromone recipe alongside the cultivators of his territory. This is, however, except for the ten cultivators who have managed to already reach the first stage of Qi Condensation in only a few hours. That shocks Kane, and so he decides to give them a proper reward, setting aside a full set of five alchemy dragons to create an additional set of themselves for these talented fellows.
However, before he starts something else, he recalls that he was alerted to something by one of his confidants. A warlord present on this world's northmost icesheets wants to meet with the rest of those on this planet. He initially brushed it off as a childish attempt at eliminating competition, but now that he has some high-quality autonomous production going, and recalling the potency of his mask, he smirks. Putting on the mask, he wraps himself in his divine sense as his figure shifts greatly, becoming almost a complete inversion of appearance, now seeming as a tall, pale woman wearing thick robes made of fish scales, though some of the prior features are obscured by this and his divine sense. With everything out of the way, he heads northwards to the pole, sending his qi streaming out into every part of his body, using a new recipe for Hastium, and using the wood dragon of his personal set of five to increase his speed more than sixfold.
He begins with separating the ambient qi he has granted this land into the five elements of fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. Thanks to the feedback loop of spirit herb growth he has kicked off, the density of this qi is reasonably high, even by his usual standards, almost surprising him as he gets to work. An ideal technique utilizes every one of these elements to affect a target, whether to defend, attack, refine, repair, or otherwise interact with. His Divine World Refining Formation does follow such a principle, but it is much too limited to bring to bear in a battle or use for fine adjustments. With his divine sense, he molds each element into a five-meter wide ring that rotates and swivels around a center point, which he maneuvers to be identical across all five rings.
"Too stiff."
He sets the rings aside for a moment, brewing a batch of a bright pink liquid using his divine sense as a cauldron, setting it alight to form a Pill Flame with which he manipulates the mixture. Sniffing it, he notes a similar effect to his own aphrodisiac pills, though substantially more mild, yet paradoxically more potent. He throws in a simple stone and it quickly rises out of the liquid, fluttering about the room with an otherwise unseen life before eventually falling to the ground as the effect wears off. Using his divine sense as this Pheromone, he infuses the two into each of the elemental rings, monitoring their growth as they warble and morph before him.
After a moment, each of the rings has morphed into the appearance of a limbless dragon of red, yellow, white, black, and blue coloration respectively, flying through the air as an ouroboros chasing its tail. He raises his hand and the five elemental dragons wrap around his hand, like a bird flying into its nest. He nods, pleased with his work. He sets to creating four more sets of these alchemy dragons, as he names them, which he uses to autonomously create various things he would've otherwise created himself. While they are somewhat childlike in demeanor, they are very intelligent and can utilize their natural properties with incredible ease, as such things are a part of their being. He sets them to work on a project he had in mind, teaching them his Lighting Detox Grand Magic and Pheromone recipe alongside the cultivators of his territory. This is, however, except for the ten cultivators who have managed to already reach the first stage of Qi Condensation in only a few hours. That shocks Kane, and so he decides to give them a proper reward, setting aside a full set of five alchemy dragons to create an additional set of themselves for these talented fellows.
However, before he starts something else, he recalls that he was alerted to something by one of his confidants. A warlord present on this world's northmost icesheets wants to meet with the rest of those on this planet. He initially brushed it off as a childish attempt at eliminating competition, but now that he has some high-quality autonomous production going, and recalling the potency of his mask, he smirks. Putting on the mask, he wraps himself in his divine sense as his figure shifts greatly, becoming almost a complete inversion of appearance, now seeming as a tall, pale woman wearing thick robes made of fish scales, though some of the prior features are obscured by this and his divine sense. With everything out of the way, he heads northwards to the pole, sending his qi streaming out into every part of his body, using a new recipe for Hastium, and using the wood dragon of his personal set of five to increase his speed more than sixfold.
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