Chapter 361: Soul Cultivation

{The host's piece of Soul Equipment is the Devouring Death Daggers, and with it, the host can absorb Soul Power from other souls using the Syphoning extension. It is a piece of Soul Equipment that has never been seen before and the ability to steel Soul Power after slashing someone's soul makes it formidable. Along with that, just like the Soul Equipment of the soul kind, it will grow and develop as you cultivate your soul}

{The other method to fight while in a soul form are Soul Skills use Soul Power which is gathered through Soul Cultivation. It is energy that is absorbed and stored within the soul and works different to physical energy, but can be thought of as something similar to Internal Energy. With it, one's soul would be able to live for longer, even past the lifespan of one's body, and it could also be used to unleash different attacks aimed at the soul through Soul Skills}

{Soul Cultivation is the improvement of one's soul and with more Soul Power gathered into the Soul, the more capable it is. Energy is present in everything and can also be used for everything, but comes in different forms and once one steps onto the path of Soul Cultivation, there are some instant changes} 

{The first change is Soul Vision, which will allow the host to see all the souls, ghosts, wandering souls and death wraiths around the host. However, with so many people consistently dying and negative energy being very dense in cities, wandering souls are very common and it may become annoying. Soul Vision can also be a liability as if a Death Wraith, Death Reaper or any other of the soul kind that were sent from the underworld notice that you can see them, there could be big trouble. It can be deactivated, but even with it deactivated, the host will be able to sense souls and Soul Power around him, which is very difficult to mask}

{A soul could hit another soul, but a soul couldn't hit a physical body just like a physical body cannot hit a soul. However, there are still many ways to harm someone in a physical form as a soul, while it is the same the other way round. You can think of it as though there is a Soul Space and Physical Space where there are ways to affect the other, but they are rare and difficult to do}

{Even some Immortal Cultivators don't have Soul Vision or the aptitude and talent for Soul Cultivation, which is rare, but there are still many other ways to sense souls and one's presence. One will have an odd feeling when there is the presence of some sort of soul and a being in a soul form is by no means invincible, invisible and undetectable} she said before pausing, giving Adam a chance to digest and go over everything that she revealed to him.

Everything Ava was informing him was opening his eyes to how souls really worked and it was the essence of one's being that could be removed from the body, or could have been born without a physical form.

Finding a compatible physical form is most likely to be difficult and that is probably why the soul cycle may take long periods of time and why some are unable to reincarnate.

It also explains how the myths about immortals and their ability to continually reincarnate works as the essence of their being must be too powerful for the soul cycle to handle, so they are sent back to the land of the living in another body.

While there are also other possibilities with everything that he had been told and maybe those that cultivated their Soul and continually increase their Soul Power are invincible and can continue to live on as long as they can avoid or fight against the underworld.

From what Ava had told him, even the system didn't know the ins and outs of the underworld and that implied that whoever was controlling or created the system was actually from the higher plains and the living world.

It also went to show Adam that the underworld was much more capable and mysterious than he had expected and that there would be many mysteries he could explore by heading there in the future.

{There are many things about Soul Cultivation, Soul Power and the Soul Dungeon that the host will come to learn over time, but for now, there are still a few more things that must be mentioned} stated Ava, interrupting Adam's chain of thought.

{First things first, continuing on from where I said the host may no longer feel human, the host will gain characteristics of the soul creatures. The host can refuse them, but there is no reason to as they will greatly increase your capability, power and versatility}

{Soul Creatures are a unique kind of being that can switch between having a physical and soul form through a unique trait that they are born with. Along with that, the way they age, grow up, live and train is different to that of negative and positive creatures that you are used to. All creatures that you come across will fit into one of those three categories, and although it is said that once one's soul leaves their body they die, that isn't necessarily true. As long as one's soul is conscious and aware, one is still alive, meaning soul creatures are technically living creatures. But at the same time, their plain of existence is different and there are too many laws and secrets of the universe that are too profound to delve into. All the host must remember is to hunt and become the best possible version of the host as possible}

{Although the host won't truly be able to become a Soul Creature, the host will no longer be a positive creature and also won't be a negative creature. There have been hybrids of two types: Negative Soul Creatures and Positive Soul Creatures, however, nobody has been able to harmonise being a positive and negative creature. Through the system, the host can and should become a hybrid of all three forms of beings and after that, the host will be able to become invincible}