Chapter 107 - Mind Palace (1/2)

Hao Xuan opened his eyes and returned to back the Beast world.

”I feel like the Mind palace is getting smaller by the day. At this rate, it will be full within a few weeks. I'll have to make some new ones as soon as possible,” he mumbled thinking about the two giant 18-feet guys camping in his palace.

From the Elementary Realm to the Origin Realm, the physical body was refined bit by bit. And in the Spirit Realm, the soul was refined and cultivators would be able to increase the power of their souls and strengthen it much more.

Each stage of the Spirit realm would allow the cultivators to open another Mind palace, but their requirements were too stringent and most people would not be able to open more than three or four throughout the entire spirit realm.

One needed a heaven-defyingly powerful soul to be able to support all of the Mind Palaces.

The more powerful the soul, the more Palaces they could open. The minimum requirement to reach the Profound Realm was to create at least one Mind Palace.

That's why each Profound Realm expert was different. A cultivator of Profound Realm with Six Mind palaces would be able to go much further in the world than someone with Three palaces. Not to mention they would be much stronger than their peers as well.

The number of Mind palaces also affected the number of techniques a person could cultivate. And the more Mind palaces one had the more powerful techniques they would be able to use.

This was the one aspect that Hao Xuan could claim to be ahead of everyone else in.

Any person with a constitution similar to him had a powerful soul. But he was in a league of his own.

The Soul Severing Heavenly constitution allowed him to sever the connection of other's souls to the heavens and control their lives and deaths. So obviously he needed a strong soul to support all the others.

This meant that opening Six palaces would not be a problem for him. And if he was lucky, then maybe even Seven was possible.

But one had to be a Supreme genius, someone that could look down on the Nine Realms and Ten Heavens with disdain, someone that was born to be better than everyone else to be able open Eight or Nine Palaces.

Every single person that was capable of opening Nine palaces had gone on to become a legendary existence in this world.

He sighed thinking about the long journey ahead.

After taking a little more time straightening out his thoughts, he picked up a snoring Zhurong and left. He walked back to the Mad Saints quarters and was met with Luke near the entrance.

”Captain!” Luke gave a deep bow and went on his way. Ever since Hao Xuan became their captain, even though they showed 'respect', it was only due to the difference in rank.

But after watching Hao Xuan fight and seeing the things he did, every single member of Mad Saint that had any doubt about his ability was gone. They respected him from the bottom of their hearts and knew that he had great potential.

Their attitude towards him changed completely.

Every single Mad Saint bowed respectfully in front of him when they saw him, like how a junior would in front of a senior.

He went to his room and summoned Aria.

”Captain!” with a slight bow, she was the only one that didn't treat him any differently because from the start she never looked down on him.

He smiled and nodded, ”Hows the investigation going? What did you find?”

”Its finished captain. I tried to reach out to you before but didn't get a response,” she looked up at him, ”Yes, I was a little busy with some other matters. Go on, how are they doing?”

”Yes. The family still lives on the same farm they were given at the start, but it seems someone powerful is looking after them. All the children except the oldest were admitted into the National Academy on scholarships and while the oldest one is in the military. He joined normally and went through all the tests. He is actually not bad at all and was picked for an elite unit.”

Hao Xuan frowned, ”Someone powerful? Who?”

”I'm not sure, captain. I tried to find out but even as a Red Legion member I didn't have the clearance to get that information. All I know is that its someone from the Royal family.”

”Royal family? Why would anyone fro-” he stopped mid-sentence as an image popped into his head. Yue Fei!