Chapter 273: Cultivating the soul

"So everyone. This might sound funny, but I don't know how this works actually. I mean, how do I operate the organization. You know, roles and so on. Therefore, does anyone have an idea how to go about this?" Alex asked.

"I have an idea on how to do that" Someone who was in the core formation stage said.

"Oh. Alright. Go on" Alex said.

The person nodded his head.

Then he started "First of all, I would love to introduce myself. My name's Tyler, but you can call me Black Eyes. Now, concerning what our boss said. We would have different departments. And these departments would be the administration department, mission department, treasure department, welfare department, and lastly, the punishment department"

"Hmm. That's nice. So Black Eyes, please elaborate to the others how these departments would work" Alex said.

"Alright. Now, for the administration department. The people in there are to handle official duties. For the missions department, the people in there would generate quests which members of the organization must fulfill or complete before they can get rewards, which would be in form of cultivation resources and treasure-artifacts. For the treasure department, this would hand out treasures, resources, methodology books and manuals to members of the organization who successfully completes a quest or task that they chose to fulfill or were assigned to accomplish. The welfare department would cater for the needs of the members. Like if a member needs any kind of help, the department would first see if that member has actually contributed in any way to the success of the organization. If he or she has done so, then the organization would try to fulfill the request of this person. And if it's a difficult request, the organization would try it best to partially fulfill it. Lastly, the punishment department. This would mete out varying degrees of punishment to members that go against the rules and regulations put up by the organization." Black Eyes said.

"Cool." Alex said with a smile. Then he spoke further "Black Eyes, I put you in charge since you know how to run an organization. I leave everything to you."

"Alright sir. I promise to handle it properly." Black Eyes said delightedly.

Now that he was made the one in charge of the administrative operation of the organization, he would be able to get more resources which would increase his cultivation level.

"Alright. Since things are now in your hands, I am leaving. I have things to do." Alex said.

"Okay" Black Eyes said.

Then Alex left where they all were and headed for the room that he came out from.

Now seated again on his cultivation mat, Alex closed his eyes.

Ever since he was humiliated by Soulstorm, he had vowed in his heart that he was going to cultivate his soul. And now that he was venturing into things that were deadly, he was sure that the powers that he would acquire from cultivating the soul would help him. It would be one of his surprise offensive cards.

So, with his eyes closed and focused on the soul, he calmed his mind and began to contemplate again what the soul was.

However, his soul cultivation still wasn't successful. Then Alex was made to wonder why he wasn't able to successfully cultivate the soul, as he was sure that he had understood the soul perfectly.

After doing it many times and seeing that his effort was fruitless. He stopped. But he was going to do it again later.

As he was about to come out of his soul cultivation which proved to be unsuccessful, he furrowed his brows deeply when a thought suddenly came to his mind.

Then he closed his eyes again and brought himself into the ultra perception state. In this state, his physical senses, mental faculty and even mind-related abilities are augmented to a great level. At this level, they would be thirty to hundred folds more powerful than normal.

Therefore, now that he had entered his ultra perception state, he felt that he should be able to successfully cultivate his soul.

Many hours later...

Wisps of ethereal energy suddenly appeared around Alex. And when they surfaced around his figure, they began to revolve around his body. As they revolved around him, they affected his soul, causing it to feel purified and relaxed.

Alex then gave a smile.

'I finally did it' He said inwardly.

Then with a thought, the energy began to flow into his body, then into his soul-dwelling region where they fused into his soul. And as they fused into his soul, they caused it to slowly grow corporeal.

From the formless mass that it possessed like it was a smoke, it slowly gained in density as the wisps of soulforce energy fused with it. And as it density increased, it shapeless form gradually changed.

Alex could feel the great change happening to his soul, and he very much enjoyed it that he didn't want it to stop.

So, he continued to draw soulforce energy from the world into his body which then flowed into his soul. And as he did so, his mind became clearer. Also, his thought-process became faster. He could now think faster than before. This made him surprised, but he was however glad.

Not long, the smoke-like form of his soul had changed into mist. It was getting denser. And as the energy continually flowed into his soul which had taken mist-form from it earlier smokey form, the mist began to thicken, increasing in density before actually becoming like liquid.

Now forming a small soul pool in his soul-dwelling region, it began to slowly increase in size as more soulforce energy infused into it. Then from a small pool, it grew into a large pool within his infinitely vast soul-dwelling region. And within this pool was protoforce energy. This was the energy that gave Alex the ability to summon strange, uncanny, godly physiques; the physique-evocation realm-energy.

Alex who was observing his soul couldn't notice the energy, as he wasn't at that level yet to see an energy that only immortal-level cultivators or divine-class cultivators could sense or perceive. Or he would have become exceedingly curious about the energy and know how to employ the grand, myriad powered-bodies invocation ability that it bestowed upon him.

Many minutes later, as the soulforce energy unceasingly infused into his soul, it enriched his soul pool to grow larger in size that it grew from five feet to thirty feet.

As Alex continued to try his best to expand his soul pool, a thought suddenly struck him. He had always wanted to split his soul. So, what if he could do that now. It would be far easier than splitting his soul when it has taken basically, his human form. If he did that now, there would be no pain or anything like that. But what he didn't know was that he was embarking on something considered as a great taboo in this realmverse. It could bring upon one the Absolute Soul Annihilation Tribulation. However, even if Alex knew about this, he would still venture into it as he was the daring type and one that wanted to stand out from the crowd. So, he wouldn't let the fear of Tribulations or Afflictions or whatever they were called to inhibit him from becoming the strongest and a deviant. And his idea of going about this was to partition the soul pool.

So, he divided the soul pool into many parts. This meant that he formed many smaller pools from his large soul pool.

After doing this, he infused the numerous small pools of his soul with soulforce energy. At this moment, his new aim was to grow the small pools of his soul into a large size.

Twenty minutes later...

The soul pools had gone from their similar small sizes to the size that Alex first grew his single soul pool to. That is, they had gone from their sizes of one feet to thirty feet. At this point in time, Alex had twenty, thirty feet-wide soul pools.

But Alex didn't actually stop here.

Then with a thought and exerting his power of influence over his soul pools, the twenty soul pools that he had further divided into more smaller soul pools.

Now, he had sixty soul pools. Then he tried to grow them to a larger size by infusing everyone of them with soulforce energy which he drew from the realmverse.

However, their growth rate was now slow, as he had to channel soulforce energy into everyone of them. Then he began to think of what to do to increase the speed at which the soul pools grew.

As he started to think of how to rapidly increase the pools' sizes, he suddenly remembered that he was half-negarian, a winged non-human entity that had the power to vastly and quickly absorb all forms of energies from the world, and the essences that constituted all beings.

Once the thought came to his mind, he believed that he should be able to employ that power to swiftly absorb tremendous amounts of soulforce energy from the world which he was going to channel into his soul.