I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 255: Nuances of the two power systems

Eryndor started with the offensive cultivation arts of Clarence.

Midway through practicing the Air Cleaving Slash, he finally reached the tipping point though.

Can't go on any longer.

He pushed himself as far as he could, any longer and he might fall unconscious in the training room itself.

It wouldn't really mean anything, except that he would be paying a bunch of spirit coins just to end up sleeping in the training room, which was… wasteful.

He might as well sleep in his own room.

Through sheer will, he reached his own room, and plopped down on the bed after removing his clothes.

Before drifting to sleep though, Eryndor entered his Mind Palace.

He took a look at everything, noticing the increase in all his abilities before he retreated back into his physical form.

As he once again felt the incoming familiar feeling of falling asleep, he resisted it and took out a bottle of Spirit Strengthening pills from the compartment below.

What if I strengthen my mind? Will that reduce the need for sleep?

He didn't spend much time deliberating and quickly took a pill while lying down.

The meridians would of course change with the form of the body.

If one were to lie down, the meridians which passed from the upper body to lower body would be straight.

If one were to sit straight, that is, in an L-shaped position, then the meridians going from upper body to lower body would similarly be in a bent L-shaped.

People preferred to activate their practice technique in the same position all the time because that way they'd be familiar with the shape.

Suppose they were already familiar with controlling their Qi to take a U-turn after a right turn, but if the posture of the body changed, it would be a different set of turns, which might mess up their control.

It was like muscle memory. Shifting a few things in your house would cause you to bump into them while walking because your muscle memory of the route around the house had been formed.

However, as a person who had even mastered passive cultivation, Eryndor wasn't deterred by such problems.

One of the requirements of being able to cultivate passively meant that they should be able to control the Qi to flow through the meridians in any and all forms.

A person wouldn't just sit, right? Or they wouldn't just stand, right?

A person walked, jumped, fought and did a variety of actions.

To be able to control the Qi to move through the meridians during all the actions was one of the requirements for cultivating passively.

Since Eryndor had achieved that, it meant that there was no need for a fixed form for him to switch back to when he felt like cultivating.

As soon as the Spirit Strengthening pill entered his mouth, Eryndor controlled his Qi through the meridians along the route mentioned in the practice technique Breath of Lightning God.

He felt a breath of coolness in his mind as the pill began working its effects.

I think it works?

Eryndor wasn't sure. He certainly felt less sleepy than before but he wasn't sure if the effects would only stay till the time he was using the pill.

It depended on what exactly was helping him being less sleepy.

Is it the cold feeling radiating as my mind is being strengthened?

Or is it my strengthened mind which is fending off the sleepiness?

If it was the former, it meant it would only stay till the time the pill was being consumed.

If it was the latter, his need for sleep would really be lowered due to a strengthened mind.

While it's happening, I might as well focus on my mentalist power system.

He thought, while segregating a portion of his focus towards the mentalist power system.

This power system was based in the mind sea, or one could also call it mind space.

In the start, one needed to activate their practice technique of this power system and sense the Spiritual Energy while tracing their thoughts along a certain design.

It was just like in the cultivation power system where one tried to remember the entire route of meridians of practice technique and then tried sensing the Qi.

The complexity of the design needing to be traced depended on the practice technique.

Basic practice techniques had basic designs such as a circle or a square.

Advanced practice techniques had more complicated designs.

Once one sensed the Spiritual Energy, it would be absorbed in your mind space.

From then onwards, one had to control that strand of Spiritual Energy and manipulate it along the shape of the design.

Unlike in the cultivation system where there were specific meridians for a Qi to follow through, there was no such thing in the mind space.

One just had to control their Spiritual energy to trace a specific shape at a certain size.

Well, then how would one determine if they were correctly making the shape or not?

Because, in the cultivation power system, if one controlled their Qi to go into the incorrect meridian, they would end up having cultivation deviation.

Specifically, in cultivation deviation, the meridians of that area would be unusable for a long time.

Be it using cultivation arts or practicing cultivation practice technique, they couldn't have their Qi go through that specific area of meridians as it would bring you immense pain plus also worsen the injury on those meridians.

Cultivation deviation would also result in a pretty large area of meridians being affected, so oftentimes you couldn't switch to any other cultivation practice technique of a different route either since there were high chances that its route of meridians would be passing through the same area.

It also greatly limited the cultivation arts one could use.

In short, it halted the progress of a person in their realm for a long time, and also crippled their combat prowess.

Well, the situation in the mind space for the mentalist power system was a bit different.