Trying to survive in a wuxia world

Mutual learing

When I woke up I was surprised to see that there was no one in the cave, but soon I heard some noises that came from outside; When I left when I saw what was happening, I saw that man yelling at some people who were near the fish that I had shot down. These looked somewhat beaten, I don't know if because they fought while I was sleeping or not. I was surprised at this. I didn't think they would try to do something against us after seeing that we could against a fish of that caliber, but surely greed could; They left their heads low and without looking back after they finished leaving the fish quickly and merio in the cave nodding his head in greeting.

I hurried to ask him if he wanted to sleep gesturing as he did with me but he refused, taking one of the canteens made of vugas to drink; I was surprised to see that the ones I used were not made from normal water but from the green ones that I made with the help of the green pearl. Thinking that it was because he was injured, I began to throw healing energies at him, but he stopped me and handed me the "canteen" so that I could refill it, he also emptied all those that had normal water, asking me to fill them and also gave me more swimming vegigas so that make him more of those canteens and give him more of that water; I do not understand very well why he wants so much but hey I started to make these quickly. The truth was my way of paying him to take care of my butt while he slept despite his tiredness, I approached him while doing the assigned task to see what he was doing; watching to my surprise how it absorbed energy from the basketball ball size pearls just as I do with any other only in a super different way. From what I could feel through the air, he carried his energy to the pearl and from it towards himself to absorb it in his abdomen, looking at this strangely, I extended my hand towards the ball and after absorbing the energies I tried to pass to him; achieving it just by touching it. He walked away from me in shock and I looked at him puzzled, touching him again to pass him energy, but he walked away from me and I was sad thinking that maybe I had hurt him so I went back to my task; He looked at me a little angry but I forgive myself and understood that I tried to help him in his task. Maybe my method is not good for him or who knows why what I did is bad, I let him continue in his training and focus on finishing what was entrusted; which I was able to quickly move energies from one of the large erlas to the green pearl. Although these are not compatible with each other, thanks to the fact that I separated the non-palatable part of me by eating it in my body, it was possible for me to feed it and even make it grow; After this I thought a lot and decided to try to make smaller pearls from a large one so that we could flee from this place with the loot.

For this, while the energy circulated from the pearl towards me, I moved energies back into the pearl, in an attempt to analyze it as it is formed, but nevertheless I was only seeing an increase in the concentration of energy; so I tried to create one by concentrating energy at one point. To avoid problems, I did it with the healing energy, soon in the palm of my hand a green ball began to form which gradually became bigger; then I started trying to compress it by increasing its greenish color while reducing its size. After a long time in my palm this energy was concentrated to the point of becoming liquid, it looked like green water when I saw this I thought about greenish water and I saw that they are indeed the same after continuing to try, I only increased the depth of the color; I couldn't do beyond that because my head hurt to try something else. Seeing the super greenish water in the palm of my hand, I looked at the canteens and I thought about giving him this improved version as an apology for what happened, I took a while between headaches but I got it; the only bad thing is that maybe it consumed a little of the pearl in the process. Although this is unnoticeable to the eye, she was afraid to affect the subject's anger; Although part of these pearls belong to him due to his contribution in the fight, he does not really know how much it corresponds to him. In addition, I am aware that most of it corresponds to him, due to the risks and performance in the fight; She could claim that thanks to swords and such but if she could communicate with him she would not make those claims.

He stopped cultivating to grab the canteens and return to the meditation position, only after taking a sip did he realize that there was something strange in the water; When he saw his purest concentration, he was amazed and looked at me super surprised and with his mouth open. I didn't waste time and I showed him how I did it by touching his pearl and then I pointed to the one to use to do the process. I decided to go back to my experiment, this time I tried to condense energy by helping myself with a paracitic grass. Just to see that it grew thanks to this energy apart from turning a deeper green color the further I advanced in the process when I got to the point of hurting my head I got to have a super big plant.

It went from my hand to the floor and continued a few meters more, its color was darker than the original, I decided to put it aside and take the plant from the pot and repeat the process; seeing how the pearl that she was hugging also became increasingly darker green while growing another little. After recovering, I went back to doing the process with the pearl but I only made it grow another little and turn it almost black from how dense its dark green color was, frustrated, I left the pearl in the pot and took the other plants and repeated the process to improve them. successfully; managing to obtain almost black pearls of how intense its color was. Whether it was dark red in the fiery or deep blue in the freezing, these also turned darker in color; I repeated the same thing with things made from hardened pastures, worse only blacken them. When I finished, I took the plant that had grown in my palm and turned it into a ball with the help of the fire flower. I did this several times obtaining a few bags of these balls; I also tried to use these balls as a focus to focus the energy but only managed to make them smaller and black in color. I repeated the process with all of them since I considered having the concentrate better than the diluted one, after tasting it I felt nothing but satiety and I honestly do not understand what use it may have but I imagine that they will be useful to him, leave the bags near him meditating with an open sock to see if it works for them; if so, you will have several to use. I didn't fly, but neither did he, and we continued each one in their own way, only when he was getting ready to eat did he have the opportunity to try to learn the language, he realized this and I suppose as a thank you for the black balls or the rest. He took his time to teach me, it was good because thanks to this little by little we were able to communicate more. The days passed and only sometimes we had to deal with people, they usually came at night and as we took turns one night not sleeping, each one varied who had to deal with this; He being the one who most touched this. I was lucky once I saw people approaching and to see them well I threw a concentrated fireball, obviously without aiming at them; But forget the fact that this type of balls had an explosive effect which made them fly in various parts but luckily without killing or spoiling them.

I think that perhaps this bad experience that I put them through is the cause of my good luck regarding these encounters, I honestly cross my fingers because I don't think I can talk with people like that; they surely kill me for my lack of motor skills or my stupidity when executing a skill. It is likely that by doing a poor skill execution we kill ourselves in the middle of the fight, so I focused on continuing to experiment with plants and pearls; because doing this my energy management became finer and finer giving me the assurance that I would not do something stupid.

In the midst of all this, I discovered that the other plants that seemed strange did not seem to have any ability or if they did, I did not understand it, I managed to make them bigger and with intense colors by circulating energy but nothing more; Resigned, I left the small pots in front of my cave companion to see if he could give it some use. I continued strengthening the weapons with the help of energy and plants, however I could only with the fire and ice the paracital grass did not seem to melt into the mezca, it was only absorbed by the hardened grasses at most; but then his ability did not manifest itself. I kept trying and trying with each weapon until I saw that nothing else was absorbed in any of them, even with my armor and the love I gave to the unknown subject; He was happy to see the modifications I made to him and the gifts I gave him. I do not know why he is so happy that I scold him for flowers, but perhaps those plants are used for something very cheap or for him they have a very high value; I laughed when he looked at me puzzled when he saw the flowers that I gave him I said: -A flower for another flower- killing me with laughter because he did not understand me and I smiled at him. The good thing is that they did work and he didn't understand s**t because our situation would have been complicated otherwise, especially because of the fact that I'm not sure I'm aware of what my gender is or not.

I didn't give it more importance and when I couldn't do any more experiments I got frustrated, even though I tried various things, the huge pearls were still a problem; I even improved my sleeping bag with the help of these but we only reduced a few centimeters of one of these after our hard effort. One day larger groups of people began to come to meet and they came during the day, when this happened he looked at me sad and with how little we understood each other he gave me to understand that we should leave leaving these pearls behind; When he told me this he left the cave to see how things were outside. When I saw that he was willing to give up his part of these pearls, I became sad, and I began to absorb them without measuring myself and without guilt if I could absorb them; doing it quickly by destroying them in a matter of seconds. When I finished I left the cave and I saw that he was making a perimeter outside it, as if in search of a possible path and dangers; inadvertent of what he had done in the cave. When he saw me outside he approached me and asked me to go with him, the truth these days I grasp with trust at least I know that he will not betray me because of greed or maybe because I gave him too many things he wants me close to continue taking advantage of my innocence; It was good for me to continue learning the language and thus have a tool to survive. If instead he wants me to make things for him, I don't see why I won't do it in a couple of seconds, I don't think he's going to share what I'm capable of with anyone and he's going to protect me in order to secure his source of resources; or maybe he really sees me as a good life and death friend clueless. I nodded and followed him wherever he went, glad that he was going in the opposite direction of the waterfall where the avalanches of fish occurred; As we moved, I moved my energies towards him. The truth is I did it because I felt very energetic and I was afraid that everything I absorbed would make me explore or something. He felt what I was doing and looked at me strangely; if he felt like in the cave these were absorbed into his body quickly at a faster rate than when he trained. To the point that I needed to drink a whole bladder to be able to repeat the process, he told me to do this later and we followed the path to where only he knew.