Who Did This?

Selheira's changes came fast and quick, her tail beating against the ground with a fervor. 

Her delicate pink lips parted a roar that rended the skies echoes. Her power improved by leaps and bounds despite the fact her cultivation didn't budge even a single inch. It was truly as though she was a flower blooming in the depths of Spring, a gorgeous rose budding for the world to see. 

It was a long while before Ryu snapped out of his state of enlightenment. Truthfully, he could have kept going, and only he would dare to snap out of it on purpose. But, he had felt diminishing returns from his thoughts and felt that in order for him to make another huge leap, it would probably take about a decade or so of seclusion. 

He was unwilling to hole himself up for that long. He had never been in seclusion for that long before, at least not truly, but aside from that, he had things to do. He couldn't waste so much time.