Jason was ready to throw fists at any hostile being in his surroundings.
Despite having earned a huge fortune Jason felt the urge to let off some steam by fighting.
His soulbonds' strength had increased drastically and he had been able to cultivate properly too.
Using the Balance of the Universe technique for half a day was no problem anymore, and the cultivation speed was several times higher than actively cultivating without a technique.
This included the ability to cultivate extremely fast while walking around.
Having imprinted the necessary movements into his mind, Jason was able to liquefy 5 drops of mana per day, while being able to continue walking around at the same time!
And this excluded the enhancement received from releasing the Celestia aura!
Jason could still improve his cultivation speed, but he was already shocked about the fast progress he had made.
But that was only logical because his progress was the only thing that kept Jason from going insane.
Three more weeks had passed and he had already been underground for longer than a month, and he had yet to see signs of the surface.
After walking upwards for almost two weeks, he had entered a small cavern hall, with several tunnels leading in all kinds of directions.
Taking the tunnel that led upwards, Jason noticed too late that he had been deceived by his own senses as the tunnel was slowly turning flat, and stayed on the same level for the next weeks.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Artemis, Petri, and Solaris were also slowly starting to be annoyed at the surroundings that looked exactly the same since the last few weeks, with Artemis being the noisiest about their circumstances.
She was able to absorb the transmuted mana in the surrounding without any issues, but that didn't make anything better for her because the area around her restricted the little owl tremendously.
She felt claustrophobic in the underground cave and missed flying in the sky, soaring through the heights in the open.
Despite that, she had been diligently liquefying her mana, allowing her to create her 1900th drops of mana without any issues.
Her cultivation speed was even faster than Jason's which was still somewhat restricted owing to the fact that the vast majority of mana in his surroundings was transmuted.
Meanwhile, Petri had been able to learn to absorb Primordial energy instead of life force, which was a new experience for the Basilisk.
It was interesting, but only for a few initial weeks. Doing the same week after week, for more than ten hours a day was depressing, and Petri was eager to fight someone, using his normal form.
Nevertheless, he had been able to compress his fourth drop of lifeforce, which was equivalent to having 4000 drops of liquefied mana, with the sole focus on enhancing the physique!
Solaris' tasks were different compared to the other two soulbonds because it had to properly annex one of Jason's soul crystals first.
Devouring the lesser origin flame had been less of a problem than Jason had initially expected but that was definitely an advantage.
Thanks to the second origin flame it had absorbed, Solaris had not only broken through its shackles, but it had also been possible for it to enhance its abilities.
Despite not gaining a new ability, it didn't create any major issue as long as the existing abilities would be strengthened.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})After Solaris had finally annexed one of Jason's soul crystals, it had begun to use tiny traces of Jason's mana in addition to the fire transmuted mana in the surroundings to absorb it into its mana core.
With the absorbed mana, Solaris wanted to create its first solidified prismarine crystal.
In the end, Jason couldn't complain about his own, let alone his soulbonds' progress, because he would earn a huge fortune by selling the elemental crystals and element ores at the peak Lique and Low Prismar grade that he had mined from the cave.
Doing so for several hours a day slowly filled his spatial rings, and Jason also knew that it wouldn't take long before they would overflow.
Never could he have imagined that this could happen, yet, his spatial rings were already filled to the brim.
Without being able to calm himself by letting off steam through mining, Jason was not sure how long he could control himself anymore.
He was very impatient since the beginning, and there was no way that he could stay underground for a few more months.
'Why did I even question myself whether I should cultivate underground or search for a way to the surface when I just entered Manyr…'
Jason knew if he had stayed even deeper underground to cultivate for a few months, he would have turned insane just by looking for a way out.
Now that a month had passed, he was already at his wit's end, but there was a ray of hope Jason perceived.
This ray of hope was in fact the fifth cavern hall he found, and one particular tunnel that had an extremely steep ascent!
Driven by his impatience, Jason had told his soulbonds to return to the soul world.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})They could be injured if he was not careful, because Jason wanted to use Solaris' flames to manifest wings on his back with which he wanted to fly up the steep tunnel.
It could be a trap, but even his Emperor Eyes clearly showed that the tunnel would go almost straight upwards for as far as he could see through the soil.
As such, Jason became a little bit excited, feeling that he would soon reach the surface which made his hands itch to touch the surface.
With Solaris' flames spurting out of his shoulder blades, Jason flew up the tunnel, precisely evading the long crystals that protruded out of the walls.
His bright golden-silverish eyes radiated a distinct glow in the same color, seeing everything more than a kilometer ahead of him as he continued to fly higher.
This caused a bright smile to emerge on Jason's face because the tunnel he was flying up didn't suddenly twist in a random direction!
It felt as if he was slowly being rescued, and he could tell that it wouldn't be long before he would reach the surface.
At least, that was the only thing that made sense to Jason because he knew that he had already traveled several kilometers in height just in the last few weeks.
As such, considering the fast pace at which he ascended the tunnel, Jason knew that he had easily passed the 10-kilometer threshold, but the tunnel had yet to end.
'Just how deep underground am I?!' He thought in frustration, visibly confused about the area he had been forcefully teleported to by the world bridge.
Jason's confusion deepened because several minutes passed, and there was still no change in his surroundings.
Unable to see anything other than elemental crystals, element ores, beasts that were mostly at the Prismar stages and a cavern hall or underground lake once in a while, nothing around him seemed to change.
However, suddenly, 15 minutes after his ascent, his Emperor Eyes sighted what he had been looking for, for a very long time.
"Finally!!!" Jason shouted, seeing a bright light at the end of the tunnel and the unrestricted energy currents swirling through the empty space he'd seen through the soil!
