Swoosh
The flower once again launched to Hou, but this time he stood still. In his mind he steeled his mind to let a parasite attack him, this was so opposite to what he used to think he had to actively stop himself from dodging.
The flower planted itself into Hou's hand he put forward. Given the chance, the parasite stabbed itself through his skin and attached itself into his body. Now on Hou's palm were bright pink petals, facing outward.
Inside Hou's mind he could feel his will being attacked by the parasite, but he was no longer scared. He mobilised his will and formed a barrier around the attacking qi from the parasite.
The attacker's qi was dark and foggy, but once Hou activated his formation, it condensed into a small black orb, no bigger than a fingernail. He had done it, it was so simple, or rather Yue's technique was so powerful even a novice like Hou could use it to control a will.
Yue's voice then rung in Hou's mind,
"Good, very good. You are now cultivating my blood path properly. I will show you now how to use this parasite yourself, come sit down. I'll take a few hours to analyse this technique and figure out how it works...."
36 hours later
As Hou was sitting cross-legged, he manipulated the qi in his body, both that Yue gave to him and the one he controlled himself. They felt like a part of his body, through the blood connection his will dominated the other will, and therefore the qi.
"Aha! Genius, these new cultivator's have created something quite ingenious indeed, the will you have captured is basically a key and power source. Inside the parasites body, there is the spirit will. I won't go into that just yet but spirit will is the portion of will that has abilities. When the activating will comes into contact with the spirit will it consume the qi around it and activat the ability!"
Hou was enlightened but still asked what as spirit will is,
"I will explain in due time, once you become a real cultivator you will find out. Back to this parasite, these circumstances are perfect. Since there is abundant qi in the form of miasma all around you, you should be able to replenish the qi and use these abilities nigh infinitely! This cultivator's hubris of controlling the whole region will become our rise and his downfall"
Hou didn't need to listen to Yue and knew what he needed to do. He controlled the activating will and used to ability!
Ting
In a flash that even Hou was barely able to see, the six pink petals on his hand flew in a helix into a stone nearby. Hou started to smile, he could protect himself and others again, this was the power he needed to fight.
After Hou waited five breaths he could feel the limited miasma qi he controlled be used, and the six petals regrew one after the other clockwise.
Hou then decided he was ready to explore further and find others, he could defend himself with his robe and attack with his petal attack. But before he did so he released his blood and formed a formation in the air, trapping and controlling more miasma qi, then the black bead of condensed qi flew into his body, seeming to phase through not stopped by his physical skin. This was because qi was not physical and Hou removed will from around his body that let the qi go into him.
***
Hou moved down the mountain he had peaked and found more small and weak parasite, continuing to use his blood to control them. By the time he had reached the bottom, he had 4 more parasites. On both of his legs he had vines that his body accomadated and turned into his veins. This was the power of Ancestor Yue's masterful body reconstruction. These parasites could increase his speed, power and endurance in his legs. Next on his left ring ringer extending upwards to the back of his hand he had bright red moss. Once activated it it could release a blood fog. Inside the fog vision was impaired and outside wills were slightly repelled, weak creatures inside would have trouble moving. The final new parasite was a spiky cactus which turned a wrist guard which when activated shot out a storm of small needles.
"Just this day. I've already become a elite warrior, Ancestor I can't thank you enough for letting me become so strong" Hou put his fist and palm together like Yue transmitted to him and bowed. This was how cultivators greeted and thanked eachother.
Hou seat down and started forming an empty incomplete blood formation in his body. Once it was almost done he released it into the air and completed it, again forming beads of qi. He had a limited amount of qi that could be instantly used, he needed more so all of his abilities could be fueled. The speed was also increased since he was also naturally gaining miasma qi from the wills inside of him drawing more in.
"Disciple you are truly more than I ever could have hoped! You were clueless about cultivation yet now you are advancing so quick, even though your not yet a cultivator you can utilise the inner world of the two cultivators as your own! I dare say you may even surpass me in talent... Before I died I was known as the most talented upstart in the country I was from, it is appropriate that you, my disciple, will continue to show the world my power!"
Hou felt proud as he had had never had such a master who played him so openly. The closest he had was his quasi-father Arm, but he was too prideful to directly say anything.
Behind Hou a death shadow formed slowly, starting out small bit quickly growing taller than the trees it good in, just as it lunged Hou felt it and activated his leg parasites to dodge it.
He turned around and saw...