Murim Recurve

Re'Kha took in a deep breath, sensing the Wood Qi fill the space around her. It formed a bubble encompassing her body—seated cross-legged. Re'Kha held the Wood Qi Essence in her hands, sensing it emit Wood Qi slowly but steadily.

The Wood Qi was pure, instantly annihilating the Wind Qi in the air around her. When the Wood Qi touched her storage ring, a small quantity of it was absorbed. Upon seeing that the quantity was minimal, Re'Kha heaved a sigh in relief. If it tried to absorb more, she wished to recharge it by heading to the garden first.

In a place filled with plants was an abundance of Wood Qi. Though, most of it was within the plants and not in their surroundings. If she wished for the storage ring to absorb the Wood Qi in them, then she had to cut open a gash on a tree trunk and place the ring there. That was the only way.

Thankfully, it seemed opening and closing the storage space didn't consume as much Wood Qi as she had thought. Though, she had only opened it around 10 times at most. So, it was a given the expenditure wasn't high.

Re'Kha didn't feel it was a loss upon seeing the storage ring absorb a trace of the Wood Qi unleashed by the Wood Qi Essence. It was a minuscule quantity. As the Wood Qi filled the bubble controlled by the Wood Qi Essence, Re'Kha smelled the scent of grass.

At the start, it smelled like grass that sprouted after rain. As time passed by, the grass grew, turning into a shrub that soon grew into a tree. Eventually, the tree propagated, raising a forest of trees. At this point, the Wood Qi had filled the space, achieving a point of saturation.

Without any specialised techniques using the Art of the Elements, this was the concentration of Wood Qi a place could attain naturally. If Re'Kha created such a phenomenon on the ground, grass would sprout from the ground at speeds apparent to the naked eye.

Thankfully, she was doing it on the bed that didn't sustain the conditions to create life. Re'Kha began feeling the Wood Qi, watching it touch and interact with her, feeling as if she was rolling over a meadow whose grass was soft, covered with a faint layer of dew.

The moment she activated her Wood Qi perception, the gem in her Tikka jewellery turned green. If anyone saw her Tikka jewellery now, they would scream in shock and raise weapons against her immediately.

Wood Qi was an element exclusive to the Bisheen. No other race apart from them could wield it. So, the fact that the gem on her Tikka jewellery glowed green was an indication that she wasn't a Kalki, but a Bisheen.

Among the Kalki, only the element of lightning shared this position. Only the Kalki could wield Lightning Qi. No other race could wield it. As for the elements of water, metal, and fire, there existed other races that wielded them.

A Harmoniser's affinity to their race's exclusive element directly dictated their identity. So, this was the reason Re'Kha couldn't just stroll through the garden and comprehend the Wood Qi. It was just courting death.

Otherwise, there were cost-effective methods to comprehend the wood and wind elements. Any places with trees were rich in Wood Qi. And as for the Wind Qi, it was everywhere. All she had to do was find a place where the wind was the fiercest and meditate there, for the Wind Qi would be the densest in this region.

But, Re'Kha dared not do that. For the moment she did so, she would be announcing to the world that she was different. And, Re'Kha dared not remove her Tikka jewellery, for she didn't wish a Sha to crop up beside her.

The Sha were beings exclusive to their race. Only the negative emotions from a Kalki could produce a Sha. It was why they wore their Tikka jewellery. With that, their negative emotions would be filtered out and the creation of a Sha wouldn't happen easily.

Moreover, in the small chance, a Sha was created, it would just target people based on the desires that manifested it. Suppose someone didn't wear their Tikka jewellery, then the Sha would immediately target them first, possessing their body easily. They would lose all hope of resistance once that happened.

The Tikka jewellery was also the reason they were partially conscious of themselves when controlled by a Kalha. And, it was also the reason they were able to resist the Kalha for as long as they did. If not for that, they would fall prey just to the sound alone.

Normally when she activated her Wind Qi perception, Re'Kha had kept the gem on her Tikka jewellery hidden. It was just pulling the hood over it. At times, she acted like she was scratching her forehead—when in her base state—and allowed people to perceive the blue gem underneath.

This was how she had maintained herself until now. Moreover, when under the hood, even when she activated her Wind Qi perception, the grey glow of the gem almost looked black due to the lack of ambient light. So, people perceived it as her activating her Metal Qi.

After all, the Metal Qi wasn't pure black. It was a darker shade of grey that almost resembled black in dull places. But in places where the sun shone brightly, it looked like a darker shade of grey. But in the water—Early, Peak, and Late Water months—season, there was barely any sunlight.

The ambience was dim, akin to twilight when it was almost dark. This was thanks to the dense layer of clouds that blanketed the sky. In the house interiors, the lanterns weren't bright enough to differentiate the shade of grey on her Tikka jewellery's gem from that of a Harmoniser using Metal Qi. This was why there wasn't any suspicion directed at Re'Kha. She had been careful in that regard and had exercised ample caution.