D: "Oh, there was that too. I had a different question actually." 

S: "Unfortunately, she said that it was fine. She didn't mind what you said. No need to apologise directly." Saiyan recalled the news giving me a sympathetic look.

D: "Seriously bro? What's that look for? It works better for me actually. No need to waste time thinking how to frame sentences for the apology. If she's cool, I don't need to burden myself with unnecessary worries. I was just doing it for the peace of my mind. But on a different note, tell me whatever is allowed to share regarding circulating the Kundalini to increase the conductivity. I'm not able to consciously make the energy flow through the vessels in a way I want. I'm using the skills but the vessels aren't getting faster in carrying Kundalini. Also, you're absorbing Shakti and circulating Kundalini through the same vessels right? So we can't do both at the same time, right?"

"That was actually a good question. One of the many we had asked to the senior sages when we started out." Saiyan said with an apologetic smile. S: "We are supposed to figure out all this by ourselves. Apparently this training will create the differences within the structure of the vessels between two individuals. Not everybody has a similar internal structure of Kalpa's sap vessels. The sages refused to give us a set way as it will only bind us to a pre-existing method, leaving no leeway for evolution or innovation. So try different things out. What works for you or me won't work for others and vice versa."

"Well then, thanks for the tip. You might feel that it wasn't helpful but your talk about flexibility fired up my brain for a moment. I'll try some things. See you at dinner." I said and we separated again for the day. There was this idea that suddenly came to my mind from Saiyan's words. I can't wait to try it out.

Hurrying back to my cave, I sat a bit away from the Shakti Rekha. It wasn't time yet. I needed to rearrange my vessels in a way that suits best for me. Watching the wardens perform Charm Creation also gave me this idea. I also needed Panna's sap for this to work. So without her, again, this idea won't come to fruition. 

"If you can accomplish whatever you have thought out, it will be crazy. Let's try once and see what happens." Panna supported me positively. 

"Okay, let's go. Hopefully I can do it better this time, since I can focus, unlike last time when my mind was in shambles, being unable to persevere the intensity of Shakti. I can change the location of your sap in my body right?" I confirmed with her.

"I'm not sure, atleast you won't die if you try, so feel free." she replied back. "If things go south, I'll take the reins."

"Yeah, thanks." I said and started focusing to make numerous mini hands inside my body this time. I had heard from my brother one day who was studying biology a few years ago, that we have two types of blood vessels, one for good blood and the other for the blood containing impurities from different parts of the body. I will learn about it in detail after some years, but this will be enough context to move forward. The sap vessels before were only a few dozens in number before, but now I needed more as their functionalities will be divided. Imagining two mini hands stripping the sap vessels into smaller ones, as if tearing away thin strips from a piece of paper I increased the number of sap vessels. They weren't budging before, but after Panna adviced me not to force them but ask them gently, the vessels complied. Now there were hundreds of thin snakes floating inside my body, wondering where to go, and waiting for me to lead them properly. I slowly moved the mass of Panna's sap from my hand to the place right above where my muladhara chakra was. What I realised from before was: The Kundalini flowing through Panna's sap can be controlled by both me and her. If I'm too focused on something, Panna can help me with automatic activation of skills. Both Panna's sap and my chakra points will be responsible for holding kundalini, which theoretically should allow me to store twice the amount compared to others. Since Panna had a very little amount of sap within me, it was best to use it as a small Auxiliary chakra point instead of making vessels from it. I took a little less than half of the snakes inside, making them bite my inner skin at newer places covering as much surface space as possible, and joined their tails to the main root chakra point. After that, whatever less than half amount I kept aside, was separated into smaller length pieces, which connected my auxiliary chakra to the root chakra. This part was hard, working with really thin and small vessels. I had to focus quite a bit as if I was threading a needle. The other half went around travelling within my body and again returning back to the auxiliary chakra point. The setup was now complete. I shifted closer to the Shakti Rekha and started feeding my intake vessels. With a sudden jolt of excruciating pain, I fell back retreating away from it.

"No no no.... the amount of Shakti was too much for my now thin vessels to handle." I started panicking. Was it a wrong approach?? I probed into my body and found torn away pieces of vessels floating around in my body. A feeling of horror clutched my heart...will I not be able to absorb Shakti again?? I was too impertinent, not thinking about this simple thing ahead. I just assumed the sap vessels were almighty. 

"Calm down!" Panna's voice was hard and definite. "It will take some time, but you need to make the smaller snakes bite the tails of the other ones, leaving a few that will be attached to your skin. Don't panic and start it at once. Everything is fine!!"

Yes, I needed to rejoin them. This time I'll join three snakes to make the vessels thicker. I'll have lesser amount of intake ones but it's fine. Concentrate. Concentrate.

Taking a deep breath, I again started the excruciatingly long process of making the vessels longer and thicker. I heard the bells for dinner but skipped it. I haven't used any Prana points yet, so I'll handle a little hunger. The setup was complete after who knew how many hours. My clothes were drenched in sweat making me wonder why I didn't go naked beforehand. I was so excited with my idea that I forgot to take care of even the little things. How careless can I even be? I was honestly disappointed with myself, losing so much time over nothing. I should have considered a trial run with a single intake vessel, making it thinner slowly to see it's breaking point. Then applied it on to the other ones. Just a simple solution, but it totally skipped my mind. 

"I didn't imagine the consequences properly before taking the path." I still have a lot to do, and so much more to learn.

"Let's try again." I again sat over the Shakti line, letting it enter my body. Please don't break. I had already tried out once with three snakes, hopefully it'll apply to others too. This time, about a dozen more broke away, but it was still successful. I made six vessels joining two of them together, from the dozen that were broken away and again attached them to outside. A few vessels broke away from a different part again as I kept repeating the cycle. But I could definitely feel both my chakra points getting filled up slowly. Panna's chakra point won't be able to filter kundalini from Shakti being different from a Chakra anatomically, so as soon some of it was filtered by the root, she intervened and started sucking up kundalini from it. Once it was filled up, I overflowed the distribution vessels. After that, the root chakra was left to do what it was meant for, storing and creating kundalini while filtering out Shakti.

Now we have to try it with the skills. I activated both field of protection and Recovery skills, got naked and started abusing myself. I realised that whenever the mouth of the intake vessels were wounded they stopped taking in Shakti and retreated into the body waiting for it to heal back. Which places are least likely to get injured during a fight? I gave the intake vessels new positions on my body. It ranged from the arm pits, to my inner thighs, places which were really personal. If someone ever scanned my vessels they would label me as a pervert. There was one vessel that remained default throughout all the trials and tribulations of my training. It wouldn't budge no matter what. It connected my main chakra to the the outside through the little finger of my left hand. There must be some reason, but I had to no clue to go deeper into the topic.

This time it took much longer to deplete both my chakra points while using the skills. I was concentrating on absorbing shakti, while Panna was responsible for transferring filtered kundalini from the main to auxiliary, as well as activating my skills. We exchanged roles after some time, but realised she couldn't force the main chakra to act as she wanted. So she was given the job of only making sure that the auxiliary one kept feeding itself from the root chakra. Taking care of two things at once was tough but somehow manageable. I would suddenly stop intaking Shakti or deactivate my skills being unable to concentrate. I felt my intake vessels growing thicker slowly, along with the increase in conductivity of my distribution vessels. The green light of field of protection also grew in intensity. We came up with semi manual mode and automatic modes for names of these two cases. Thinking that I didn't even need to convert my Prana because of the efficient system, I decided to activate wood Flesh all over my body to use up the energy faster. Wood Flesh, I found out, grew stronger the more kundalini I fed. At Max capacity, it burned through whatever was left within five minutes. I converted 13 points of Prana over the next three hours, which worked in tandem with Shakti Intake and filtering, to fill in Kundalini whenever the filtration process of root chakra couldn't keep up with the expenses. After my Prana points reached 1, I started the chakra filling method again without expending any of it instantly. I wanted to see how long field of protection, recovery and wood flesh could be used together when I start with a full capacity. I was surprised with the results. Only expecting it to work for ten or fifteen minutes, I was shocked as it crossed twenty five minutes. Even after all this, I'll probably find people continuing for hours, probably. Well again, this is something I came up with, and I'm happy with how it turned out despite all the hiccups.

I decided to take a nap, all naked still, until I heard the bells for breakfast.

It was a drag to wear my clothes again. Now I realised why all the sadhus in the Himalayas moved around naked. There was something liberating in donning my birthday suit, but...now I'm embarrassed of even thinking about it. I'm starting to get really weird, I thought to myself as I dressed up and reached the pool to wash my face in the cold water.