From the ass-side

"So that's how it feels," Vaner muttered to himself as he looked down at his palms. 

There was no physical manifestation of his energy that he could stare down at. It was all confined within his cultivation... cultivation, that the ritual Vaner activated somehow reversed. 

"At least the seal broke," Vaner muttered to himself after checking up on his own situation. 

The ritual wasn't perfect. Over the course of translating Vaner's energy into this other kind that was present in the borderlands, he lost an entire realm of strength. In other words, Vaner, for the first time in over a century, turned back into a normal human from a royal. 

'That makes me worried whether the seal will reactivate or not,' Vaner thought, looking at his wrist where the royal seal used to be.