The speed of his recovery was showing signs of growing faster and faster!
As a result, making his True Qi turn back became harder and harder, more and more difficult.
"This feels a lot like suddenly getting the urge to fart in a very solemn setting, in public, with everyone watching..."
Finding amusement amid his misery, Zuo Xiaoduo summed up the sensation for himself.
"You know perfectly well that this is the most solemn of occasions. If you do it, you'll utterly disgrace yourself, so you absolutely can't let it out. You do everything you can to hold it in. Then that gas gets forced back, makes a circuit inside your body, and charges back down again... then you hold it in again... pull it back... over and over, with more coming all the time, each wave higher than the last..."
Zuo Xiaoduo felt that he really had it far too hard.
"But it doesn't seem quite the same, either... hold a fart in long enough, and it turns into a burp... but this true essence power won't undergo that kind of variation..."
"Also, if you hold a fart in too long and it bursts out uncontrollably, it can bring other things out with it... this true essence qi won't bring anything else out..."
Zuo Xiaoduo toiled away, struggling to control the flow of his restless True Qi while continuing to cultivate, laughing heartily at his own wild thoughts all the while.
"I'm just too talented... I actually managed to turn something as serious as breaking through a cultivation barrier into farting..."
By the time his cultivation session in the Gravity Room ended, Zuo Xiaoduo had held it back five times in total. He felt as though his dantian had been inflated like a pig's bladder, filled entirely with qi.