Then, Greerwu opened his eyes.
Angel was about to inquire about Greerwu’s condition when, upon opening his eyes, Greerwu’s pupils looked lifeless, his body swayed, and then he collapsed on the ground, unconscious.
Angel immediately went forward to check on Greerwu and found that his breath was disordered, his complexion pale, and his whole body burning hot.
Just as he was worried that there was something wrong with Greerwu’s organs, he heard a faint snoring sound coming from Greerwu’s nostrils.
Angel: “…” Was he simply asleep?
Greerwu slept through what seemed like an eternal night; by the time he awoke, it was already the next day.
Greerwu felt as if his body had been hollowed out, his limbs were sore and swollen, and he was extremely weak. Just making a movement, he couldn’t help but gasp in pain.
“This is the consequence of your forced participation in the experience journey,” a faint voice reached Greerwu’s ears. Looking up, he saw the shopkeeper sitting not far away, playing with a fire-red orb in his hand.
“Shopkeeper,” Greerwu greeted, with a somewhat hoarse voice.
Angel casually tossed the orb in his hand to Greerwu, “This is all I have left, make do with it.”
Greerwu took a look and saw that it was a fragment of the Fire Transmission Stone, containing some fire energy. For witches, it couldn’t be used directly, as the fire energy was full of the Abyss’s violence and chaos. But for Greerwu, he could directly use it to replenish his depleted energy.
“Thank you.” After crushing the Fire Transmission Stone fragment and absorbing the fire energy into his body, Greerwu finally felt a bit more comfortable.
“So, did you gain anything from this experience journey?” Angel asked, seeing that Greerwu had regained a bit of strength.
Greerwu pondered for a moment and nodded firmly.
Back on the Continent of Yuantan, Greerwu had absorbed part of the Demon God’s True Spirit’s power, and he had vaguely felt as if a certain inner power was being leveraged.
Greerwu immediately deduced that this hidden power within might just be the key to the “maturation” he’d been searching for.
Next, Greerwu tried every possible way to release that power, but although he could sense it, he couldn’t quite mobilize it.
During his time at the Demon Monastery, he racked his brains for a long time without an answer, eventually deciding to seek out the shopkeeper for the experience journey.
Having witnessed the marvels of the experience journey in Lassudral, Greerwu was intensely curious about it. Even if it turned out, as Lord Aoluxiya said, that the experience journey might not be of much benefit to him, Greerwu decided to try it anyway, to see if using the contradictory Water Element could reverse trigger that hidden force within him.
Listening to Greerwu’s account, Angel couldn’t help but recall the youth he had seen in the fire.
“It seems you’ve succeeded.”
Greerwu nodded somewhat sheepishly, “I only sensed that hidden power for a moment. Although I haven’t truly mobilized it yet, I feel that I won’t be too far off from that day.”
“Then keep working hard,” Angel said with a smile, patting Greerwu on the shoulder—a pat that sent Greerwu tumbling to the ground.
“Ouch, ouch—” Greerwu gasped in pain, crying out repeatedly.
Although Greerwu had found the answer he’d been seeking, the price paid was the internal injuries he now bore.