Chapter 4 - Spiritual Sense (1/2)
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The sensation of omnipresence, no matter how limited, was extraordinary to anyone. Yan Zaizen, like many cultivators of his city, did not practice Soul Cultivation for many reasons. Yet, he possessed spiritual sense. Spiritual sense maintains a direct connection while transmitting the information to the mind in real-time. This would give one an often mistaken sensation like their five sensory perceptions have been enhanced but in truth, it only gives that impression.
However, Soul Cultivation required specific materials or soul-attributed essence. Unlike standard essence liquid or crystals, which utilizes the world's all-present and varied essences to cultivate qi, Soul Cultivation's soul-attributed essence was far rarer and more difficult to obtain.
If you had a variant soul, then cultivating the soul typically had other requirements that could be filled rather than soul-attributed essence. Unfortunately, he did not possess one - at least to his knowledge.
So one can imagine his bewilderment.
The angry wasp didn't seem to forget its intentions as it dived towards Yan Zaizen with fury, little did Yan Zaizen know that when he ran earlier, he had almost stomped this little wasp to death. However, when he went unconscious and started glowing with an unknown glow, the wasp turned tail and ran without even conceiving the notion of revenge. Then, Yan Zaizen woke up and the wasp had found his enemy once more. Unlike before, he didn't have the black light surrounding him, thus it decided to strike!
Unfortunately for the wasp, due to Yan Zaizen's enhanced perception and current cultivation, it was far from being Yan Zaizen's match. A wave of the hand and a surge of Qi later left the wasp without its life.
”Incredible!” Still shocked by his discovery, he couldn't help but direct his gaze to the Meteor Ring. Was it because of this? Being unfamiliar with the concept of Soul Cultivation, he didn't know how much he'd progressed, but he could actively sense his surroundings of up to one hundred meters around, and passively feel the surroundings of about three to four meters. If he focused in a single direction, even reaching five hundred meters was possible!
Unfortunately, only grass and hills were around and no pretty girls, otherwise he'd hope to use this new perception for...better things. However, he fully intends to do so when he returns. A mischievous grin couldn't help but form on his face.
An idea formed in his little head after a while. Perhaps...
He sent his newly acquired Spiritual Sense into the ring, and suddenly felt that his surroundings were no longer filled with just grass and hills, but a myriad of colorful and random assortment of items. It was like his perception was split, one outside and one inside the ring. His soul form, a characteristic that only Soul Cultivators possess, seemed to take shape inside the ring. Soul Forms is classified as the body of your soul and determines its structure, characteristics, and status of your soul. Seeing his soul form, he felt odd.
He was like a thin light. There was no silhouette of himself, but more so just a thin, squiggly line of light. He could see around the inside of the ring and even move at almost unsurpassable speeds inside, but it felt a little underwhelming being a line of light. Was this his soul? He'd never seen storage ring where one can send their soul into. Most storage rings were constructed using spatial-attributed essence and materials to create a small pocket world, this pocket world can then be interacted with using one's Qi. Spiritual Sense wasn't required.
However, this ring obviously required it for usage.
From what little he did know of Soul Cultivation, it was divided into three aspects: Spiritual Sense, Soul Form, and Soul Flame. Spiritual Sense is awareness, Soul Form is one's soul body, and Soul Flame is the energy source that powers the Spiritual Sense and allows one's Soul Form to maintain itself. The Soul Flame is an essential aspect of Soul Cultivation, as it determines the strength of one's soul, and any damage to it essentially means damage to one's core existence.
He couldn't see his soul flame in this form. It didn't surprise him much, cause he didn't know much about cultivation relating to the soul, but it still gave him a start. He decided to put this at the back of his mind, and focus elsewhere.