Spritual survay of the oasis show promise. there are multipul sources of what appers to be mid grade (reletive to him) energies eminating from the direction of the center of the oasis. the oasis stretch at least 10K kilometers forward.
When he was escapeing, he considered to stop and... and then what? he head no plan, and then the oasis entered his deteaction range, and he decided to give everything to go there. he barely reached the edge just as the last of his powers was draining, and he made it, and landed in the very edge. where the ambient energies level are the lowest.
The energies eminating from the direction of the center of the oasis indecate that there are some... stuff.. over there. stuff that can be used to make the talismans he badly needed now even thorough they are much lower grade then what he had. they will suit to his need. to survive.
he relized he was thinking on the situation wrongly: instad of thinking on the goal, he need to focus on the here and now. he needed to assess the situation and his next immediiate actions.
his cultivated body can sustain on the energies he gether such as the Qi which is the most suitable to feed an earliy cultivator body. could not allow his body to burn his last remining energies,so he need to shut down this process. but with no energies, his body will burn fuel to provide needed energy - itself.
first his body will start with the sugars in the cells. this is a BIG no no. every cell, every sugar molecule, every carbon atom, is infused with his cultivation, his spirt, his physique, and his acumleted energies. leting now oxygenation occer inside his body, will cause the loss of atoms druing exhlation, and he can't use his cultivation to prevent their escape. after all, matter stasis is one of the most important steps of culttivation. what the point to infuse you body with profound energies, if they are just going to escape eventually?
and that also reminded him he going to need to start breathing oxygen now... with his lunges... how long since he last did that?
once sugar start to burn, his body will start to rotate fat reserves in his body, fouling his circulation system, and messing with his energy pathways. it will seriously hamper his cultivation progress untill the fouling been removed, but that was the last thing on his mind. the danger here is that the fouling will cause even greater instablities when he will be refuling on the low grade energies he is going to have to consume, making it even more damaging to consume this energies.
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once the available sugar and fats will be low, his body will start consume itself, and every cell lost his way, could not be replaced, even if he will be able to refuel. he need to cultivate to returne any lost cell back to the orginal body strength.
the solution is simple. he need to entre into his body new fuel to burn insted of his own carbohydrates. he need to consume stuff. geting forgain matter - oxygen and crabohydrats - and burning it will cause much less damage. the weak external matter will not be able to interact with the inside matter, unless his insde matter decide to do so, but will interact with itself much more easly. will will also be expelled much more easly also. notto mention that the reactions will not even damage his insde. weak ions cant ever damage super strong DNA.
the nearest soure of calories was rigth below his feet. he took some grass in his hands and put it in his mouth. it taste weird. now what? what he is suposed to do with it? ahh... use the teeths to grind it. ok, now what? secrate sliva to warped it. now come the part he know, swallow and send it to the stomach.
his stomach, enahced by his cultivation, to be able to endure the most dangeros substances, disolve the most wild energies, digest, clean and purify powerfull ingredients - is now used to eat grass...
with the gress digestion various energies are released inside his body, such as plant elemental energy and some earth elemental energy the plant has not converted yet. this energies cannot be consumed. they are to weak, to unpure, and to little. indeed, only the calories are of any use.
the stomach melted the eneriges into solidfied micro pebbles. the stomach cannot dispose or diges this with the current situation. amazingly even some of the cell lineing are not digestable under the current condition and will need to be also disposed somehow. he vagly remmberd that the inital body of a cultivator can actualy do that. that is the reason of exsitance of the cavity in the backside that in the past caused him much pain before his body reached suficent cultivation to not need to sit when cultivating. that cavity will take care of the waste that ramained after digestion.
2.3 secounds after digestion started, all the pullable fuel in the stomach reached into the cells. his body now runs on calories. he need to adjust his body control to now run, instad of Qi, on this lowest of energies resorces in existence.
but now is not the time to wallow. he need to eat more. a lot more.