5 The Divine Books use (2/2)

Sneaking into the house, he headed straight for the bathroom and washed off the impurities.

His foster parents had later found out he was home and questioned him why he came home so late.

Leon made some random excuse of having stayed back for club activities that involved teaching dogs some tricks and how to behave.

Although his adoptive parents had their doubts about what kind club that was, they did not question further.

Kids will eventually grow up and have their own thoughts and secrets.

However, they were a bit sad when Leon addressed them as 'adoptive mother' and 'adoptive father' by accident, instead of the usual dad and mum.

Leon had subconsciously created some distance between them due to the fresh memory of his previous life.

He had immediately noticed this problem but didn't have a good solution to tackle the problem.

Although they were not his real birth parents, they did raise him with love and care.

Originally this would not have been a problem for the previous Leon, but now that his memories had awakened, with the more dominant one being the latter, he couldn't bring himself to call them mum and dad immediately and required time to adjust himself.

His soul was experiencing an unique problem. It wasn't as simple as taking over a new body or awakening past life memory. It was like two souls sharing one body, except they were both souls belong to him.

One lived for 30 years in the Divine Realm and the other lived for 17 years in the world, he soon learnt to be called Gaia.

The two souls began clashing for dominance, making his character complicated like a person suffering from multiple personality disorder.

'Which one is real me? Which one is not?'

Leon felt lost and the problem was difficult to ignore. However, he had no solution for it.

Maybe he could accept both life and fuse the two opposing soul, however there was an invisible barrier, preventing them from merging into one.

Leon wished he had someone who can enlighten him and give him the answers he needs. Unfortunately, no one can help him, except himself.

The soul was a complicated and very profound topic that not even the peak experts of the Divine Realm dare lay claim to having complete understanding of it.

He can only leave it be for now as he is clueless with which direction to take regarding the issue.

'It's better to focus on cultivation.'

It is already late in the night, but since Leon have the spare time alone, why would he waste it on sleep?

Fortunately, after cultivating a strand of primal chaos energy, he can now access the [Divine Book of Life] in his soul core. The World space of the divine book has a special environment, overflowing with lifeforce that aids the growth of spirit plants planted inside.

The spirit herbs grown inside also have a higher chance of upgrading to a higher tier, the lower the current tier and the longer the spirit herb stays inside. Unfortunately, the higher rank divine herbs don't enjoy this benefit. Spirit and divine rank herbs that have already been harvested will not have its medicinal properties deteriorate if it remains inside the world space.

Spirit herbs were divided into 5 tiers and Divine herbs were divided into 4 tiers. The high the tier, the stronger its medicinal properties.

More importantly, in the [Divine Book of Life] is the record all plants in existence and a plethora of complete pill recipes, from spirit to divine rank. However, to peruse the information, one must use their divine sense to see it. So, if one has the book in hand without being at the Divine state then tough luck.

Luckily, Leon is an anomaly who has retained his divine sense ability without possessing his past Divine state cultivation.

'I can't concoct any pills to aid my practice for now, but I should take a look at what spirit herbs are available so I can plan ahead,' was what Leon thought since he does not have a pill cauldron and rare flame to concoct pills with. Of course, one can also use normal flames, but it would affect the final grade of the pill.

When Leon inspected the world space, he was immediately dejected. The expected overflowing lifeforce-filled world space was not there. Most of the space have been greyed and the divine rank plants have all withered and looked lifeless.

A small patch of lifeforce was still present but only the lower tier spirits herbs survived.

Leon's mouth twitched at the sight.

'Of course, even divine treasures are not completely indestructible.' He should be grateful it survived on the journey of reincarnation with him. Perhaps, even his father's power was insufficient to allow him safe passage into the cycle of reincarnation and the [Divine Book of Life] had used up its powers to provide the extra help needed for him to complete the journey successfully.

It finally made sense to him why he didn't possess his memory immediately upon rebirth and the divine treasure was probably in hibernation up until now, recovering its powers.

Leon continued to stare at the low tier spirit herbs.

'I guess, it's better than nothing.'

It will be more difficult than ever for him to achieve the Divine state without the divine rank herbs but it's fine. Life was never meant to be easy.

He didn't experience any hardship while he was under the halo of his father in the past, but he guessed no one can escape the fate of hardship. He's just experiencing it a little later than others.

'Fortunately, all the herbs needed to concoct the Meridian Fortification Pill is present. But where in Gaia, will I find a pill cauldron?' Leon thought. 'Maybe an antique shop? I should give it a look tomorrow.'

The Meridian Fortification Pill, as the name suggest, will allow him to strengthen his meridians so it can bear a bigger load of energy. This will help him refine more energy at a time, increasing his cultivation speed.