Chapter 1217 - Climbing (1) (1/2)
It had been a little over three and a half months since Dyon entered the Mystical World and his progress could only be described as mind numbing.
Under intense pressure, Dyon's soul was continuously tempered. It was built up and shattered so many times that its density had increased by hundreds of times, easily.
For months, Dyon meditated while under severe, blood curdling pain. [Soul Rend], a divine grade soul cultivation technique, focused entirely on breaking down the soul to its finest pieces before re-invigorating this broken-down soul with the use of processed conventional energy, purified to the point of being acceptable by the soul.
There were two deciding factors for the grade of a soul cultivation technique. The first was related to how thoroughly the soul could be broken down while also maintaining absolute safety. The second was related to this purification of energy.
The reason Soul Rend Quadrant is able to birth so many talented soul path cultivators is because it is filled with energy that is already purified in this way. However, in other quadrants less tailored to soul cultivators, the energy in the atmosphere isn't processed, leaving it impure for the consumption of the soul.
Essentially, a soul cultivation technique's grade heavily relies upon how efficiently it can purify conventional energies into soul energy.
It is also worth mentioning that any kind of energy, even devil qi, can be converted into soul energy after processing. The difference is that devil qi would produce less soul energy per volume as compared to conventional energy.
That said… Conventional energy wasn't the energy best suited for conversation into soul energy either. But, that was a matter for another time.
Still, no matter the grade of the technique, soul cultivation would always be painful. In fact, the higher the grade, the more painful the process often was.
Before, Dyon had utilized Evangeline's energy to raise his soul cultivation. Because of this, the soul energy didn't perfectly integrate with his soul. Although it had boosted his cultivation, he didn't have full mastery over it.
Luckily, over the past three months, Dyon made this energy his own. His soul cultivating speed was so fast that he shattered his master's expectations time and time again. It was to the point where Esmeralda legitimately believed that if Dyon didn't have to worry about the restrictions on his body and did nothing but soul cultivate, he could reach the half-step transcendent realm in less than 50 years.
That estimation made Esmeralda tremble with shock. 50 years? She had never heard of anyone reaching that realm with less than 200 000 years of acc.u.mulation. Even the Dragon King needed 300 000 years!
'Could it really be the acc.u.mulated talent of billions that accounts for this? If that's the case… Why is his body cultivation so slow in comparison?'
Dyon's master frowned. Could Dyon's body cultivation be so slow because he wasn't technically cultivating his own body? He was actually just integrating the cultivation of someone else…