75 Goodbye Ruins (1/2)
Long Yu began with a heavy sigh, ” 'árbol que chupa sangre', is tree that is raised by demonic cultivators, they usually feed their tree living cultivators who acts as the nourishment for the tree, every so often these tree gives birth to a fruit which when consumed strengthens the soul of the person who consumed it.”
Helen: ”I do not see the need to strengthen my soul, why should I strengthen my when my own body is strong and it protects my soul.”
Long Yu sighed for the umpteenth time, 'seriously this people are really from some backward place.', what he did not know because of his upbringing he had access to knowledge which were not readily available to others so easily even his own team 'Shadow Wolves', maybe knowledgeable than others they still lacked in comparison to Long Yu, ”Well soul is a very important component of us, and in certain cases we have to strengthen our soul, like those who are undergoing tribulation to ascend to Immortality, the tribulation not only affects the body but also the soul if the soul is not up to the mark it can be easily get destroyed. Not to mention a powerful cultivator has ability to attack with what is known as 'Soul Force', which can only be achieved if one's soul is strong and can only be blocked by a person with equal or greater soul strength.”, he took a deep breath before he continued again,” There are a genre of Ki cultivators known as 'Puppeteers', they use soul force to command their puppets to their bidding and are mostly of two types
a) Construct puppeteer: this type of puppeteers usually create puppets using various precious items which they use for battles or any other purpose.
b) Corpse puppeteer: they are actually puppeteers who refine the body of a deceased cultivator using their secret technique to create puppets.
As I said this fruit can strengthen the soul of a person it also helps in gathering of massive amount 'Yin ki' for the person who ate the fruit, as such they are coveted by both corpse puppeteers and Jiangshi masters.”
Tina:”Long Yu I have heard about 'Corpse puppeteers', but what is this 'Jiangshi master' cultivator is?”
Long Yu frowned as he answered, ”They are cultivators who can reanimate the dead person as their obedient slave. A very powerful and talented Jiangshi master can even keep the conscious of a their Jiangshi slave completely intact, so just think about it a person who was your family but was raised as a Jiangshi to combat against you, that person talks and behaves just like he used to towards you when you were alive but now you are forced to fight against him, will you be able to face your loved one, your family at life death duel.”
A shiver ran down on everyone's spine at that, the thought of being forced to fight against their precious person in a life and death duel.
Kyouki: ”I never knew there were people like that in the world of cultivation”, she spoke out with a hint of fear.
Ryofu: ”So soul cultivation helps people with Yin type cultivation more?”, she asked a little confused.
Long Yu shook his head, ”No Soul cultivation does not favor 'Yin' type cultivation more in fact it enhances both 'Yin' or 'Yang' type of cultivations a little, normally body cultivators are lean towards 'Yang' type where as Ki cultivators lean towards 'Yin' type mostly only a few cultivation techniques or skills are opposite, but in case of Hybrid type they are different as they have to always maintain a delicate balance which most fail to maintain as such they end up leaning towards Yang or Yin side making them difficult to make any progress with their cultivation anymore, but if they can cultivate their soul it will be much easier to maintain balance.”
Everyone was listening to his explanation earnestly, as such Ruth himself could not help but ask, ”How, how does it help to maintain balance?”