After 2 days, Ankit replaced his position with his Solar clone.
He had already sent his Sacral clone to the hut. Ankit had also told the clone to build a place to live underground,
so Ankit could take his family there when needed. Ankit had also told the Sacral clone to make a field where he could grow crops like wheat and rice.
Ankit didn't want to rely on external food supply when he went into hiding. So Ankit wanted to be self‑sufficient, and he also had water‑type Essence Flow; with its help, agriculture would be easy.
And Ankit had replaced his position with the Solar clone because he wanted to start his cultivation again.
After replacing his position, Ankit used the "Terrain Glide Technique" to swiftly reach the mountain range near his city.
Then Ankit dived 100 km deep and found that underground lake where he had previously cultivated Substage 1 of Stage 2, Elemental Cores Awakening Stage.
Now he again came here because he wanted to open the energy pathways of the Sacral Core.
After completing Substage 1 of Stage 2, Ankit had found all the energy pathways related to the Sacral Core.
There were a total of 8,000 Sacral energy pathways. And the same is true for the Solar Core: it also has 8,000 energy pathways, because after he completed Substage 2, he found the Solar energy pathways.
There is just one difference between both cores' energy pathways, and that difference is the nature of energy pathways.
Out of 8,000 Sacral energy pathways, 1,500 are main/big energy pathways. The remaining are small pathways.
Ankit started the process. First, he connected the energy pathways with his Sacral Core.
It took only a day to connect all the Sacral energy pathways to the Sacral Core.
Then Ankit began opening the Sacral energy pathways.
Small pathways were opened in just 6 days. But the big pathways took a total of 15 days to open.
After opening all the Sacral energy pathways, Ankit began filling them with water‑type Essence Flow.
He began gathering water‑type Essence Flow from the lake depths.
Because of his breakthrough, the three cyclones had gotten bigger and more powerful.
Now Ankit could gather neutral / water‑type / fire‑type Essence Flow quickly with the help of the cyclones.
The cores, in comparison to the cyclones, were much smaller. The cyclone size had increased and its gathering range was 2 km.
It meant that Ankit could now gather Essence Flow from a 2 km radius.
Ankit filled each of the energy pathways to full capacity.
This process would take 1 full month or more.
While Ankit was grinding, the outside world was in uproar.
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News Headline: **"MAGIC ENERGY DISCOVERED!"**
Scientists unveiled revolutionary new energy capture tech—devices that capture Essence Flow from the air. They discovered that this "Magic Energy" can be an endless power source.
Magic Energy makes free electricity—squeeze it, get 3x more energy out. It can power whole cities without fuel or pollution.
They also discovered that this Magic Energy can be used to process stronger and more durable metal. The metal created by it can survive extreme heat. This metal will be 100 times stronger than existing metals.
They named it "Magic Energy" because of its magical uses.
The news also said that scientists of many big institutions and universities were going to conduct several researches on this Magic Energy and find its other uses.
A renowned scientist said on the news, "We have just uncovered 1% of this energy. We are still not able to completely understand it."
And the important part of this research the scientists detected is that this Magic Energy is not only present in India but also in other countries.
All countries are now trying to find a way to use this energy. But India is in the lead because they detected it early and have already started to conduct research on it.
The other countries also use the same name—"Magic Energy."
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On the other side, Ankit's Solar clone was watching the news with his family.
After listening to the news, the clone murmured, "I have to inform this to the main body. They have already begun researching the Essence Flow; the chaos is going to come faster than expected.
But the main body is in secluded cultivation, so this has to wait."
"And I should contribute to enhancing strength, not burden the main body with all the work," the Solar clone declared to itself.
Then the Solar clone began to think of the best way to contribute to the strength of the main body. He decided to read novels and make techniques.
He began reading novels. He saw some wild, some overpowered, some impossible techniques.
All these techniques gave inspiration to the Solar clone.
Hours turned to days; Solar clone had already made 40+ techniques. Some techniques were elemental, like:
**Earth Cataclysm Field (Area Control)**
Raises a 20 km earthquake zone, swallows cities.
Effect: Ground becomes sentient, targets enemies.
**Aerial Gravity Crush**
Manipulates air pressure to flatten a 5 km battlefield.
**Storm Sovereign Descent**
Calls a heavenly storm (50 km radius) with sharp winds enough to cut steel like paper.
**Solar Lance Annihilation (Single Target)**
Sun‑core spear melts through planetary crust (20 MJ).
Some techniques were non‑elemental, like:
**Essence Vacuum Domain**
Drains all Essence Flow from 10 km radius instantly, gives a massive boost.
**Singularity Finger Annihilation**
Gathers all the Essence Flow in the body to a single finger and unleashes Absolute Destruction: anything touched ceases to exist—no debris, no explosion, pure erasure.