Chapter 5 - Immortal Herculean Method (1/2)
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”Shit! Why you doing this to me, baby?!” He looked towards the ring on his finger with frustration between his brows. Just when he thought he'd struck it rich with the essences in the ring, he realized one major problem - he had no means to remove it. He racked his head repeatedly in an attempt to extract the objects out of the ring, even to the point where his newly acquired soul energy ran out, ejecting him from the ring, and giving him one hell of a headache. This put a damper on his dreams of enjoying immense wealth.
He even had a dream of walking into an auction one day and bidding on everything while laughing. As the frustrated stares of the poor looked towards him in anger while their gazes contained heavy envy at his capability. All of that seems to be like a joke now.
He sighed in resignation and noticed daylight was fading as the sun descended down the horizon. It was time to return home. Yan Zaizen didn't realize that he'd spent three full days out in the middle of nowhere, and thus wasn't really in a rush to go home. Rationalizing it up to this point, he decided to walk fairly slowly back to Meteorite City.
He felt exhausted anyhow, especially in regards to his soul. He'd never felt exhausted spiritually before. It was fundamentally different than physical or mental exhaustion. Physical makes it feel like your body burns at parts from overexertion, while mental feels like you've been hit with a bountiful injection of need-to-sleep. However, spiritual exhaustion felt more like a tingling feeling all-around and lack of awareness. Before, he could sense the surroundings rather clearly, but now things were slightly blurry and discombobulated. Like, the sky was obviously above him, but he felt like it wasn't.
It was simply a strange sensation.
It wasn't one he liked, but it wasn't so bad. He could still walk, albeit slouched, and his physical body and mental capabilities were still functioning. In truth, Yan Zaizen assumed mental and spiritual had little difference until he unlocked his Spiritual Sense. To him, it's like Spiritual Sense was connected to the five senses, but the five senses weren't connected to Spiritual Sense. If he used his Spiritual Sense to observe his surroundings, he'll receive what he'd normally see with his eyes. But if he looked at something with his eyes, he wouldn't be perceiving it with his sense. It was definitely something one had to get used to.
He had a lot of time to think about things, including the Meteor Ring. After some time, he finally remembered the motes of light that were emitted into his soul by the book. He couldn't figure out what those motes of light were or why the book-turned-crystal sent them into his soul. Earlier, he was too distracted by the concept of wealth and how quickly it was out of his reach that he didn't put much thought into it.
Looking back, those motes of light originated from the book and entered his soul. Speaking logically, perhaps the contents of the book that had blank pages entered his soul. If so, what does that mean? How can he get access to it? Thinking deeply, he decided to revisit his Spiritual Sense, even if he felt spiritually exhausted. His Spiritual Sense turned inwards. That felt beyond weird. It was as if he was peering into his body and soul. He could observe his heartbeat, the pulsations of his lungs, the inner-workings of his intestines, and even the light thumping of his brain. He learned quite a bit about the human anatomy on that alone. He almost felt like he was observing another person rather than himself.
He had one word for that: Incredible.
Putting his miraculous discovery of self-observation aside, he put more emphasis on his Spiritual Sense on his soul form - that squiggly line. He could see the motes of light. With a thought, the sense surged inside the soul form and touched the motes of light.
Almost immediately, he stopped in place.
A flood of information surged from his soul to his spiritual sense to his brain. It was that sensation from before, where he felt like his spiritual sense was connected to his brain, but his brain wasn't connected to his spiritual sense or otherwise - the soul.
”Immortal Herculean Method, first level: Nascent Herculean Physique. Immortal Herculean Method, second level: Grand Herculean Physique.'' He whispered the information he received from the motes of light. They detailed the Immortal Herculean Method and its subsequent training practices and characteristics. However, what really drew his attention was the first description of the technique: 'Become an Immortal Herculean! Exceed the heavens, and shatter the sky!'