Rebirth of the Disgraced Noble-Chapter 71: Resonance Veins? I Don’t Have That.

Zero lowered one finger, then the other, pointing at Aden’s lungs and then his heart.

"Most cultivators see their soul as a single vessel. You pour water in, the vessel is full. But you, Master... you are no longer a single vessel. The Entity has carved a second set of channels into your flesh. To cultivate both, you must stop trying to force the empty pot into the flowing river."

He paused, his eyes glowing with a faint, sickly light as he visualized the process.

"You must treat your Resonance like your breath, constant, natural, and flowing with the world. But with the Void energy, you will treat that like your blood. It stays inside, stays pressurized and only to be let out when you intend to use it’s destructive abilities.

Lorelei leaned forward, with furrowed brows. "But what of the Friction the two energies will create? If he circulates them at the same time, the heat will be so intense, it might melt his marrow."

"Only if they touch," Zero countered. "You see, the secret isn’t balance, it’s insulation. Master must use his Superior skin as the barrier. The Resonance must flow on the surface, through the skin and the air, masking the Void energy. Then, the Void must be coiled deep within the bone, suppressed until the moment of impact."

Aden raised his arm to interrupt them. Zero and Lorelei halted their conversations immediately and refocused their attention on him.

Aden coughed lightly. "I might not have told you this, but... I don’t have Resonance vein."

Lorelei’s eyes widened to the limit and Zero just stood there with an empty visage. The basic fundamentals he believed in since the hundreds of years he’d been in existence had been shattered single handedly by that revelation.

Lorelei still couldn’t believe it. After all, how could a cultivator not possess Veins? How would they circulate their energy or even learn their affinity? 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

So, she took a bold step forward and bowed slightly to Aden. "Can I see?" She asked a bit hesitantly.

Aden let out an ’Oh?’ sound before he outstretched his arm with a shrug. "Sure. I thought you guys would’ve noticed since I didn’t try to hide it," his voice dropped to a deprecating whisper. "Not that I could if I wanted to anyway."

Lorelei simply nodded, she didn’t catch everything he said, majorly because her mind was swirling with existential thoughts.

Her hand hovered an inch above Aden’s arm before wrapping around it with a soft breath leaving her lips.

As her eyes closed, she infused a tiny bit of her energy into his skin, and since Aden wasn’t guarded against her, it penetrated without much resistance.

The moment Lorelei’s energy breached his skin, she didn’t find the familiar, branching tree of a nervous system made of light. Instead, she found a hollow shell drowned in transparent energy.

Her breath hitched. For a second, she felt like she was staring into an empty room where a fire had recently happened. There were no designated pathways, no highways for energy to travel.

Aden wasn’t a vessel in the traditional sense, he was more like a porous sponge.

"There’s... nothing," she whispered, her eyes snapping open, shimmering with a mix of horror and awe. "It’s just raw flesh and bone. The Resonance isn’t flowing through anything, it’s just... soaking into you."

Zero’s sickly face contorted. He looked like a librarian who had just been told books don’t need pages. "No veins? There’s no such thing!"

Zero stepped forward and performed the same test. The results remained unchanged.

He took two steps back, the crazy light in his eyes burning even brighter.

"This... this is incredible your Resonance isn’t a stream, It’s more like a flood. You aren’t circulating energy, Master, you are simply holding it in your cells until they can’t take any more."

He stepped closer, his analytical mind already rebuilding his entire lecture and worldview on the fly.

"This... this changes everything. The Friction Lorelei feared? It won’t happen in the marrow. It will happen everywhere. Because you have no veins to act as pipes.

"The Void and the Resonance are currently swimming in the same pool. The only reason you haven’t detonated yet is because the Entity’s Superior channels are acting as a temporary cage," he gestured ecstatically.

Aden pulled his arm back, the marble skin feeling strangely heavy. "So this new body basically makes me a stronger jar for two selfish energies?"

Zero nodded, then let out a dry, rattling laugh. "This ultimately means that insulation is impossible. You cannot separate two liquids poured into the same jar. Unless..."

Zero’s eyes flickered to the Redwyn Ring on Aden’s finger, then back to his Master’s chest.

"Unless you don’t use your body at all. Master, if you have no veins, you must use your Skeleton as the Void-Well. The Void energy must be compressed into the very hard-matter of your frame. The Resonance can remain in the flesh-sponge. If you do this, the separation isn’t between two energies... it’s between solid and liquid."

Aden’s eyes flashed in confusion. "So my bones become the Veins for the Void and the Resonance stays in my flesh? What about the channels the Entity created?"

A light flared in Zero’s eyes. One characteristic of borderline crazy researchers who had found something extremely interesting to them.

"The channels aren’t meant for you to contain the energies, no," Zero circled him with observant eyes. "They’re meant solely for the release of it."

A wheezy laugh escaped Zero’s lips. "I don’t know how he did it, but the veins are one way! There’s no channel for energies to enter!"

Aden had a weird feeling as the previously docile and servile Zero had turned into a wild scientist in the blink of an eye, but that wasn’t the only thought that bothered him.

’Did the Entity predict this as well?’

Lorelei stepped back, her hand still tingling from the hollow feeling of Aden’s arm. "But to force Void energy into your bones... the pressure... you’ll feel like your skeleton is trying to hatch out of your skin."

’She’s right, host,’ the Entity’s voice finally rose, sounding genuinely impressed and proud. ’The bone is the only thing dense enough to hold me without touching your transparent filth.’

Aden looked at the circle of his Vassals. Something told him there was no other way. He stuck the wooden branch back between his teeth and bit down until his jaw ached.

"Start the seal, Zero," Aden rasped through the wood. "I’m going to see if I can turn my bones into a container."