Chapter 59 - That’s Unexpected. (1/2)

After waking up again, Krune went back to the Order Hall and threw a tantrum in front of Hase Hasik, but unfortunately for him, the name couldn't be changed anymore, it was a onetime opportunity, Krune looked around but the culprits had long since disappeared, they obviously fled somewhere, Krune felt liking crying but had no tears.

Time passed and just like that another month went by, today Shinja had finally passed the ten levels of the endurance test and became an ordinary disciple of the Mohi- cough, cough, Rainbow Sect. She went to the Books Hall to search for a soul cultivation technique suited for her, Krune still had an annoyed face but still helped her to select a good one, he had already committed to memory all the introductions of techniques when he came here before, so he took all the water related techniques.

”So, those are all the ones that have water element as base, some are focused in attack, others in defence, there is quite a lot for support as well, a few of them are suited for water and lightning like the skills you like to use so you might want to give them a little more attention, I also know the techniques of the fourth and fifth floors, so I left out the techniques that wouldn't be compatible with higher techniques for when you reach a legacy disciple level.”

Shinja nodded and took a look, all techniques were good ones, probably because they could be changed after becoming a legacy disciple, Shinja started to read through the descriptions while Krune left, she will definitely take a lot more time to select one the he did, after all there was almost no techniques for all five elements but there is a lot if only water is considered.

Back to the Order hall, Yusa and Ao were still going through the endurance test, Ao is much further ahead since Yusa had to stop for her Spiritual Energy Meridians creation, he already got to the sixth Divine Sense attack of the last level. Yusa didn't have any more spirit stones for the Spiritual Energy Meridians creation, so she started to take the endurance test again and was at the second attack.

During this last month Ao achieved the 7th stage of the Foundation Establishment, so his combat prowess went a step further too, he should have no problem in fighting ordinary 9th stage cultivators, he also successfully created his eighth pseudo energy meridian and was one step away from being able to create the ninth.

Although Yusa seemed like to have fallen behind, the truth is that she was far ahead, the four Spiritual Energy Meridians had helped her improve her elements control by a lot so she could fight Ao head on even being one cultivation stage behind, and it won't take long for her to breakthrough into the 7th stage as well.

'They don't need anything other than time at moment, I guess it won't take long until we move back to the city, our improvement had been enormous but we are now lacking combat experience, I also have to return to the Alchemist Guild to make some money, it should be okay for me to start focusing on Four Stars Pills from now on as well.'

Krune then went back to his own training, he still had a long way to go before he becomes an expert with his soul cultivation technique.

A few days later, Krune received a message from Shinja to gather in the Order Hall, he thought it had something to do with her choice of cultivation technique, but arriving there, he could also see Yusa and Ao.

”Did something happen?”

Yusa and Ao just shook their heads, they also received a message from Shinja and just came out of the soul endurance test.

Shinja looked at them and smiled.

”I can now breakthrough into the Core Formation Realm.”

Krune and the others were surprised, but that was to be expected, she had been accumulating experience and energy for a long time, with the improvement of her soul it goes without saying that she could take the next step.

Krune decided that this was a good chance to ask about the Core Formation Realm breakthrough, he was far away from that realm before so he didn't care much, but his cultivation is improving every day, the only reason he stopped at the 5th stage was simply to stabilize his foundation that was showing some problems due to the speed of his breakthroughs.

”So, exactly how that Core Formation breakthrough works?”

Yusa and Ao were also interested, if not for their encounter with Krune, they would be far from considering something like Core Formation, so they haven't looked into the requisites for the breakthrough.

Shinja, of course, was different, she had already been at the peak of the 9th stage when she joined the group, her reason to go to the Furiu Realm was exactly to find an opportunity to make the breakthrough.

”You could say that the Core Formation breakthrough is a lot easier than the Foundation Establishment, of course, I don't mean easier in difficult, but easier in understanding the process, you heard before that this breakthrough had a lot to do with the soul, right?”

Krune and the others nodded, they remember that someone commented that before.

”So, simply put, your future golden core is being nurtured, but for what is it being nurtured for? The answer is, to become a 'home' that will 'gestate' your Divine Soul.”

Krune and the others were puzzled.

”Aren't we talking about the Core Formation Realm? Where did the Divine Soul come from?”

Shinja was already expecting that question.

”It isn't that hard to understand, a Divine Soul can't appear out of nowhere, it has to be created at some point, and the 'gestation' of the Divine Soul is done by none other than the nurtured Core of the Foundation Establishment realm.”

They had to admit that it made sense, it's just that the concept of Divine Soul realm was something really far away from them.

”Basically, you are saying that the entire Core Formation Realm is nothing more than a gestation period of the Divine Soul, is that right?”

Shinja nodded.

”Correct.”

Yusa then asked.

”So, how exactly you make your core nurture a soul, does the soul appear out of nowhere?”

Shinja shook her head.

”Like I said, the Core Formation Realm is just easy to understand, but hard to achieve, that's because you will need to literally use a part of your own soul and fuse it together with your core.”

Krune and the others were alarmed!

”Use a part of our own soul? Is it even possible? No, first of all, doing something like that might get you killed instead.”

Shinja didn't deny that.

”The old saying can be applied here, to cultivate is to go against the will of the heavens, there is no lack of cultivators who died during their Core Formation Breakthrough, but if you desire to move further in the path of cultivation, this is a stepped that you must take.”

Krune and the others took a deep breath, Core Formation was a lot more dangerous than they thought it would be, but a look of determination appeared in their eyes.

”So what if it is dangerous? I refuse to believe that we won't encounter even more dangerous situations in the future, this is just another one, nothing more.”

Shinja smiled after hearing that, that's how a cultivator should be.