55 Recovery (1/2)
On one of the mountains right outside of the volcanic range, Danger Noodle created a little cave for Jam to recover in. Danger Noodle felt ill at ease letting Jam lie on the bare floor, so she let him rest on top of her body. Contrary to what most would think, Danger Noodle's scaly skin was actually quite soft and comfortable to lay on.
This time, the damage to Jam's body wasn't only physical, it affected all three core components of what made Jam alive: his energy, body, and soul. It would take Jam a couple days to recover enough strength to even be able to open his Spatial Storage Dimension. To pass the time, Jam made idle conversation with Danger Noodle.
It turns out Danger Noodle had a complete Thunder Flood Dragon bloodline. This meant that as long as Danger Noodle matured into an adult — in a dozen or so years — she would naturally breakthrough to the Immortal Realm.
Danger Noodle was only twenty or so years old, or the equivalent to Jam's ten years of age — if we compared how far along their ”natural” lifespan they had lived. Even though both of them looked to be adults, they were still preteens.
The Law of Reproduction stated that the stronger a being becomes, the harder it will be for that being to reproduce. This allowed for only a certain amount of demonic beasts with complete bloodlines to exist. Jam was very lucky to contract a beast with a complete flood dragon bloodline while he was in the Spirit Realm, to say the least.
Another thing that came as a surprise to Jam, was that Danger Noodle would be able to assume a humanoid form after she became a Sage. This was a surprise, because Jam though that she could already transform, and just chose not to do so. Generally speaking, the higher the restriction for a demonic beast to gain a humanoid form, the greater that demonic beast's potential.
Danger Noodle was actually a fairly talented inscriptionist, being able to construct Tier 6 talismans. As a Thunder Flood Dragon, Danger Noodle had the highest proficiency with attacking, concealing, or illusion talismans, she had decent proficiency with defense talismans, and terrible proficiency constructing healing and cultivation talismans.
Danger Noodle was so bad a creating healing and cultivation-oriented arrays, that even Jam could create higher tier talismans than her. Danger Noodle tried using some of her healing talismans on Jam, but the results were not worth the cost of her talismans, so Jam told her he would heal naturally.
For three entire days, Jam lied motionlessly on Danger Noodle's back. On the evening on the third day, Jam could finally operate his energy to open his Spatial Storage Dimension. At that moment, he took out a bunch of Tier 4 Regeneration Pills and ate them. However, it would still take another two full day for Jam to return to the peak of his strength.
After a couple minutes of ingesting the pills, Jam could finally stand up, an hour later, he could fly. However, instead of traveling in his current state, Jam focused on recuperation. His physical body was already back to normal, but his Dantian, and Dantian Space were still in complete chaos.
Entire chunks of Jam's Dantian Space had fractured, and if someone were to take an x-ray image of the current state of Jam's Dantian, they would see a sphere-like object that had been punctured countless times.
Now that Jam had completely fused his energy, body, and soul, to restore his Dantian and Dantian Space, Jam would have to manually carve the rest of the insights he had stored in his Dao Palace, into his body.
Before, Jam had only able to carve insights into his body, because he had reached a high enough Dao cultivation. But, now that his energy system was connected to his body, Jam would be able to carve the rest of the insights he had gained, to reach Dao Contact and Dao Infusion.
After carving the rest of the insights he had gained in the past on his body, Jam's already existing bodily Dao runes would become more profound, in turn elevating their potency. The process of carving insights into the body, after completing the Rebirth Stage Tribulation, would normally not take so long, but Jam had 4 Daos at the Dao Domain level and another 5 at the Dao Infusion level.
This process of carving Dao runes into one's body was very eye catching, as all the Dao Runes— of the same type— that already existed would form a resonance with the one currently being inscribed. This makes the cultivator that is engraving the Dao runes on their body look like they are made of glowing tattoos.
Jam inscribed his Dao Infusion level Daos — Demonic, Bow, Beam, Space, and Time — first and then his Dao Domain level Daos — Stellar, Yang, Thunder, and Fire. As more and more Dao runes appeared in his physical body, the Dao Runes in Jam's Dao Palace also started changing.