Ning tried to use the Yin-to-Heat conversion technique but quickly realized that it wasn't working as well as he had hoped. He stopped after gaining a bit over a million energy, while at the same time losing nearly all of it.
'I'm not in a solid object, am I?' he thought. The darkness gave him no clue through a visual medium, but the fact that it was dark and he could feel himself floating a little started hint him that he might've been in the water.
Since he was in the water, energy was extremely detrimental to him since most water molecules left the bottom of the ocean once it got sufficiently hot. So, he had to first look for a proper body to inhabit.
He had enough energy to switch bodies, the only thing remaining was to actually find a body.
'System, can you help me locate a body?' he asked.