Chapter 154

Chapter 154

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The Soul Cultivation. This is the main power cultivation system of the Spirit Mark World. As Leylin retrieved the assimilated information from the A. I. Chip he was beyond fascinated and excited.

This Soul Cultivation is the method to absorb the World Gaia energy called the Soul Thread. The cultivators of the Spirit Mark Race have created a method to use this energy and become stronger over millenniums of studying, practice, knowledge and cultivating. This form of practice puts emphasis on activating ones soul strength and opening their inner power. This make the soul and in extension the cultivated energy much stronger than others at same rank.

Teaching, Understanding and Comprehension of Soul is the search for almost all high rank Magus. This is a unending quest which has isolated innumerable Magus at Rank 4 to Rank 6. Although Soul force is the energy one unlocks at Rank 4 and could tap into it to utilise devastating prowess. This doesn’t mean that everyone has a comprehensive understanding of this power.

Leylin knows that the Soul cultivation here and the Soul Force might have some difference obviously but this is a direction, which is the most important issue for Leylin because with the help of A. I. Chip he could achieve absolutely amazing feat and reach unprecedented heights in his bloodline merging.

The Soul Cultivation here is divided into various ranks namely: City King, State Emperor, Country Monarch and The Legendary Continent Sovereign.

Each of this realm represent a different landmark and are divided into 3 Tiers. If the knowledge from the injured Spirit Mark Race member, ‘Maroon’ is to go by then Leylin could somehow comprehend and estimate that the City King is around the Level of Rank 1 Magus at the peak, State Emperor being Rank 2, Country Monarch reaching upto Rank 3 and the last one is the terror installing Rank 4 Morning Star Level.

Leylin also found out tht although the Continent Sovereign don’t meddle in community affair, they aren’t rumours only. They do exist and are the real power Lord here. This caused Leylin expression to turn very solemn.

These people aren’t only just at Morning Star but they have high capabilities in the matter of soul and has reached a ridiculous stage. If Leylin were to be caught by someone like that then he wouldn’t even surely have the ability to explode his spiritual seed and protect his secrets.

Leylin looked at the youth before him and a sense of reverence as well as a frantic desire to study this culture fested in his mind. Only this State Emperor Level youth could give him a hard time into breaking through to it’s consciousness, even if Leylin isn’t anywhere near his true capabilities and peak level this is still absolutely stunning and the most important factor is that Leylin couldn’t actually pry open the meditation techniques from this Spirit Mark race individual!

Leylin energy has already dwindled to an extremely low level he doesn’t have a lot of confidence into gaining what he wants before his spiritual seed runs out of gas, with only 30-40% success rate Leylin decided to take another route and change his approach.

Currently Leylin was standing inside a foggy world with almost zero visibility but his eyes were focused as he stare at the individual before him, Maroon. Leylin was inside his ‘soul altar’ which is like the sea of consciousness. After a showdown over supremacy in his mind, Leylin decided to take the soft approach as he stood before Maroon.

“Who are you?” At this time, the Maroon spoke. Using the local Dimag language, he stuttered slightly, but Leylin managed to understand his words. Leylin could see that he was extremely confused, Maroon knew little to nothing about the fight against Leylin, because of his injury he was extremely weak. The only reason he could survive Leylin’s onslaught was because similarly to the innate defense spell of Magus, the Spirit Mark Race has the Mindrealm which protects their mind from any external attack instinctively.

“Dear Child, I am a sadhu traveller, and I ended up before you through the hands of fate!”

Leylin’s heart soared. He wanted to make use of Maroon confusion to his advantage, after seering into Maroon mind upper layer Leylin could somewhat make out the local language, being able to communicate meant that there was hope for a transaction.

“Sadhu!” Maroon exclaimed as bewilderness and doubts appeared on his face signalling his distrust in Leylin words. Sadhu Travellers are considered as a type of legend in the Spirit Mark race, they are considered to be a bunch of extremely knowledge and powerful people who roam the World in search of the inner peace. There is many folk tales about Sadhu who guide righteous people on the correct path and enable them to many a time turn the whole world upside down bringing about a new era for the better. They are revered throughout the World and hold a special place for always protecting and providing for the benefits of the race.

“Hahaha!” Leylin laughed kindly as if he has heard an extremely amusing response, Maroon was turning red in embarrassment looking at his playful expression but still kept his guard up.

Leylin stopped laughing and released the last bits of energy inside the Mindrealm shaking it, currently he was making use of his bloodline to produce a oppressive suppression on Maroon Soul Altar.

Maroon shuttered as he retreated a few steps and looked at Leylin in horror, he has never in his life felt such a feeling not even against his father.

“Are you convinced now child?” Leylin retreated his aura and looked kindly towards his extremely startled expression, “You don’t need to be on guard, I have disconnected from this mortal realm long ago, this is just a mere remnant of my soul which remained while I mixed into the Mother Marksa-Mile. I can see that you have been through a lot in life and has also suffered huge tragedy. But despite all that I could see the resolve to never quit in your expression as well as your unyielding heart so, I just want to ask you: Do you wish to be bestowed by my teachings, as long as you promise to use my guidance for the greater good I would guide you through your path of thorns.”

Maroon quivered as his body began to shake, with his soul cultivation he could see that the person before is actually not the whole but just a part of an individual and that mere remnant is capable of suppressing him so easily made him both stunned and expectant, “Do- Do you mean it? What could you get out of helping me, I am just a powerless bastard, what good could I do?”

Leylin looked at him and didn’t speak for a while, he sighed and spoke in a preaching voice mixed with kindness,”Our meeting is the will of the world, your questioning of yourself and not pouncing at the chance of power only sures me of your character. I don’t have much time left so, if you want I can bestow my knowledge onto you and if you think that my guidance was helpful you can summon me again with a method I will give you.”

Maroon looked at the extremely handsome figure of Leylin before him and kneeled down with both of his hands intertwined and pressed on the ground. This is a sign of taking guidance under a Master. Maroon didn’t find anything wrong with Leylin figure because Leylin looked just like a Spirit Mark race member, after he put up a bit of disguise.

“As you have chosen, I will try my best to guide you. You can see that I am currently only a projection, which has nearly dissipated and poses not much energy. May I know if it is possible to know about with your Cultivation method?” Leylin told him his requirements. Maroon nodded, in order to guide one any person would require to understand the said person ability and Leylin as a Sadhu should be able to do this without Maroon telling him, but his energy level was too low, since the release of that horrifying aura inside his Mindrealm Maroon could see that Leylin image was turning more illusionary each passing second. He didn’t have much time to contemplate as time was slipping away with which an opportunity of a lifetime was also dwindling.

The spiritual force seed needed the person’s own spiritual force to work, and now, it could be said that time was counting down to its annihilation.

The runes on the body of Maroon twinkled, and it actually emitted energy waves. The entire soul altar began to rotate, opening a portion of itself releasing something inside it and into Leylin’s spiritual force seed. Although Maroon took Leylin as his teacher, he still didn’t feel comfortable enough to open all his secrets to Leylin so, he just gave his cultivation method. Leylin didn’t show any reaction to this, he couldn’t care less. The goal of his mission was before him nothing else matters now.

The most important and top secret of Maroon mind is saved up inside the Soul Altar, the same could be said for all other Spirit Mark race member. As for all the miscellaneous information Leylin got, they are protected with layering too but it was much weaker than this hence, Leylin got a lot of information except for all that which is stored into his Soul Altar.

[Detected influx of spiritual force, accept?]

“Accept!” Following Leylin’s order, the curtains to the path for evolution was slowly unveiled.

Originally, Leylin don’t need it to be in-depth. Just the simplest and most basic explanations would have been enough. To the A.I. Chip, these most basic things were the most important, because they represented the foundation of the system! As long as the foundation was complete, based on the deductive ability of the A.I. Chip, there would be a day when this Spirit Mark race’s hidden secrets would be laid bare before Leylin.

A huge wave of energy was emitted from the soul alter and entered Leylin’s spiritual force seed. The information was complete without any apparent tempering as Maroon found no reason to hide this, it was from his clan and as he was being hunted by them, he didn’t have any reason to be very reluctant to pass it on especially to his new Teacher.

‘It has about a total of 7 level which would make it capable to be used till the Country Monarch and with some luck one could even reach its peak. This is very high class compared to other techniques but such can be expected since, he has a rather good upbringing. His clan is one of the strongest and being a talented person of his clan he was entitled to this much, it was only because of politics that he became a pebble to the clan and even the elders didn’t think he was worth the effort of saving, being a child born from a commoner women and dead at that even, isn’t really a good backing. His talent only aggravated his noble half-brothers who plotted against him and made him seem like a child born from debauchery of two servants feeding off the noble bloodline name and sullying it.’ Leylin was very pleased with the technique, as for the sad life of Maroon it is just a pity that he didn’t have something better than this technique such as a guidance form an elder.

But Leylin knew that If he wasn’t treated like that how could Leylin get anything in return, Leylin after searching inside Maroon mind was stunned to find that he was currently almost a week of travelling away from the faintest sign of settlement here. Maroon was a gift for him, because only of his identify as a criminal of a major clan honor was he here as a runaway.

“I have a lot of remarkable information from different guidances that I believe will definitely be helpful to you.”

“Here take this, this is my gift to you and I have also left a way to contact me if you wish” Leylin’s spiritual force seed suddenly shook, emitting a great dark gold radiance.

Leylin’s spiritual force seed vibrated, and sent a few books of information translated into Dimag language over shortly after.

Furthermore, at the end of the information, Leylin specially attached some information on methods of setting up spell formations for sending out the world coordinates to him.

“This!” Maroon was beyond stunned as he screen through them, his body shook and he looked at Leylin with an unbelieving gaze. This was because the main focus of the information was the Knight meditation technique which increased the physical attribute of the user.

The Spirit Mark Race, was a bunch which concentrated on soul strength, which would definitely be the most interesting in terms of exploring but there was something else which intrigued their fancy and that was the physical stats increasing methods.

The Spirit Mark race are remarkably strong and dominating but they also have a fatal flaw which is the weak constitution of their body. Spirit Mak race members are extremely weak in this aspects, in fact the life expectancy of a Spirit Mark race member is also considerably low when compared to Magi. Even Country Monarch have only about 150-200 years of life which when compared to almost 800-1000 years of Rank 3 is ridiculous. Even Level 3 Acolytes have life span of about 150.

Only the Legendary Continent Sovereign have extremely long life span but that is a rumor which Maroon don’t know much about.

Creatures that had achieved Morning Star level in their adulthood, were all abnormally terrifying species. They were capable creatures with hopes of breakthrough to the Morning Star level. This piqued Leylin’s interest, and he wanted to conduct research on it.

“The body refinement spell formations in here is enough to strengthen you body slightly. As for the last part about the killing techniques, although the structure is different, it can still provide some insights.” When the transaction was over, both parties were relatively satisfied with their gains. Leylin got extremely important information about Soul research while Maroon got the body tempering technique which can easily trigger a bloody massacre if released. Leylin could see that Maroon was extremely enticed and when he wants to get the next volume he would most certainly built the alter to send this world coordinates later on.

“This technique marks the beginning of our relationship as student and teacher, and hopefully in the future, You will keep in mind my adv-!” Leylin spoke halfway and his tone suddenly became exasperated.

The spiritual force seed that represented his existence suddenly became illusory, exploding into a ball of light shortly after and vanishing without any trace…

When spiritual force coagulated, it formed a spiritual force seed. However, when this seed entered another world, it would be unable to supplement itself.

Regardless of whether it was the previous experiment or the method of transmitting and receiving messages, they required a huge amount of spiritual force. Naturally, once this spiritual force was drained completely, it signalled the end of the seed.

In the Magus World, the huge interior of the Magus Tower.

The terrifying interplanar spell formation shook as the rays of light gradually darkened.

“Oh well, that’s that huh. No matter, I think I would see you again Spirit Mark World, till then enjoy the serenity.” Leylin’s eyes were a bit tired as he thought of the benefit he could reap from there. He could do nothing but wish that Maroon would summon him because that’s an entire independent world! Exactly how many times will he have to experiment before he can find another world that is not controlled by any outsider.

[Interplanar spell formation shut down. Spell formation damage 0.37%, Astral stone energy depletion 7.98%!] At the same time, the A.I Chip transmitted the information to Leylin.

Leylin waved his hand and immediately, the astral stone that was in the center of the Interplanar spell formation returned to his hand. Even though the astral stone had shrunk a little; its radiance wasn’t dimmed much this stone is of great quality and it could handle multiple more experiments.

One such astral stone was able to support the interplanar spell formation for a long time, but in order to merely connect both sides’ spiritual force, the formation had drained a huge amount of energy from it but the stone wasn’t much depleted.

“It was a huge coincidence that I got there, There was many factors involved but Lancy contribution are the greatest. Luckily, I managed to acquire at least some information before our link got cut off and also set up a method for future transaction or else this would have been a huge loss. ”

[Spirit Mark Race techniques have been collated] the A.I. Chip reported in the meanwhile.

The foundational skills of the Spirit Mark Race were very completed, and most of it was probably indicated which goes to show the ability of powerhouse there to give such a technique to their descendants. While it was just the basic foundation of their skills, it was obvious that there has been some modifications to conceal some parts of this skills. This wasn’t done by Maroon rather the clan itself, this is the reason why having a good teacher is extremely important in Spirit Mark World.

This could be a hurdle to other however, it was definitely an easy task for the A.I. Chip to collate the different bits of data sent over and derive further information from that.

“This is the key to unlock the last bit of my potential.”