Chapter 150: Advancement Part 1
Next Day;
Tyler stood in front of Kirito and said.
"I will take you to a special place. You can move around, but it is a separate dimension from this world, so there is a little bit of space."
"In that place, you can train your technique, try to control your Decay Mana, as there is nothing you can affect there."
"By the way, I will also send a lot of food there. I might not be able to contact you for a few days, so be careful while eating."
Hearing that, Kirito’s body unconsciously shivered. He caught Tyler’s arm.
Normally, this would’ve killed Tyler, but Tyler had great instincts for danger.
So, his mana would automatically coat his body if he was in a dangerous situation.
"Don’t leave me!"
Looking at his pitiful eyes, Tyler sighed.
"I don’t have a choice. I have to reach the Soul Sublimation Realm soon. Only then can I take you away to meet more friends."
He gave Kirito a serious look and said.
"I will meet you soon."
As he heard that, Kirito’s vision suddenly changed as he found himself on an empty ground.
"Tyler? Tyler! TYLER!"
Kirito roared. He instinctively felt like he was going to lose Tyler just like how he lost his parents.
But unlike before, Tyler’s voice suddenly rang around him.
"Calm down, Kirito! You can’t be emotional. Your technique can erupt with your emotions."
"What did I tell you last night? You need to have a calm mind. Only then can you control your technique."
Hearing his words, Kirito calmed down a little and said.
"I’m sorry!"
"It’s okay! From now on, you need to keep your mind calm."
Tyler replied. He couldn’t ask Kirito to grow up or even forget about his family.
That’s why, instead of letting him grow up quickly, he just let him accept the change slowly.
After settling down Kirito, Tyler left his room and met up with Commander Mike in the lobby.
"Let’s go!"
Mike nodded and took him to a large hill where he could only find a very few people.
Except for a Grandmaster who was keeping an eye on this place, there were only warriors who were trying to reach the Soul Sublimation Realm.
Mike took Tyler to a special facility where a lot of those soldiers were cultivating.
He was taken to a separate room. It was quite a secure room.
When they moved inside, Tyler joked.
"If I didn’t have the ability to be intangible, I wouldn’t feel safe coming to this place."
Mike awkwardly replied.
"Nothing will go wrong. People of this country have full trust in us."
Tyler gave him a meaningful smile before walking into the room.
Mike stayed outside and closed the door.
Tyler felt an incredible amount of spiritual energy stored within this room. He became quite excited for this.
With this much energy, he wouldn’t be able to reach the Soul Sublimation Realm, but who said he was only going to absorb this little energy?
He sat down in the middle and closed his eyes.
The Great Dao of Void Technique began running in his mind, pulling in spiritual energy into his body at an extraordinary speed.
At the same time, he simultaneously activated the Great Dao of Time Technique.
He didn’t do it to increase the absorption speed but rather the refinement process.
In an instant, his Mana Space became filled with void and time mana. The amount of mana was so high that he immediately started using it to improve his soul.
At the same time, several alarms began ringing inside the facility.
"What’s going on? Why is spiritual energy thinning out so quickly?"
"What the hell? At this rate, the spiritual energy of the facility will run out."
"Oh my god! The entire hill has begun losing spiritual energy. Who is doing this?"
"It must be above S-Grade Technique. When did such an individual appear in our country?"
Mike was standing outside when he heard the commotion. The more he heard their conversation, the more shocked he became.
Because he realized who was doing this.
Unfortunately, Tyler wasn’t realizing the commotion he was creating outside.
With the mana reaching his sea of consciousness, he began concentrating on reaching the Soul Sublimation Realm.
This required three things: Control, Enlightenment, and Energy.
He already had enough energy and control. Now, he just needed enlightenment to form a proper soul disk around his soul.
Soul Disk was the incarnation of a soul’s attribute.
It was the manifestation of one’s technique. More importantly, a soul disk was what allowed a soul to refine soul energy.
Without soul energy, one couldn’t form True Essence. Without True Essence, one couldn’t form a core by transforming the mana space.
Without the core, one couldn’t produce True Mana.
Thus, without this step, one couldn’t reach the Inner World Formation Realm.
That’s why the soul must be able to produce soul energy, and the soul itself couldn’t refine soul energy.
It could only do it with the help of a soul disk.
That’s why the more soul disks, the more soul energy one could produce.
By understanding the core mechanics of the technique, one could form a soul disk.
But understanding a technique required manifesting it inside the mind, which could only be done with the help of spiritual sense.
Until now, the technique was in the form of a memory. That’s why it usually needed a lot of concentration and why running two techniques was difficult.
But once the technique was manifested in the mind, a cultivator could fight and simultaneously refine mana to keep their mana reserve active.
This was just one of the benefits.
The understanding of the technique was the major breakthrough for any cultivator.
Allowing to use their techniques more efficiently and with more creativity.
This was the foundation of a cultivator and why it was under the main realm known as the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Tyler deeply understood this and started utilizing the mana to strengthen and reshape his soul.
This strengthening process was what would awaken the spiritual sense.
At the end of the day, soul energy was produced by the soul.
The difference between this soul energy and soul energy from mana was just like life force and blood Qi.
While both could be used to improve the strength of a cultivator, using life force wasn’t a good option.
That’s why the soul energy of the soul was only used to awaken the spiritual sense.
At the same time, the mana was used to shape the soul.
Of course, he was going to shape his soul into his own shape. This required an incredible level of control.
That’s why a mind-calming pill was necessary for those who didn’t have enough talent.
If their mind wandered even for a moment, they could genuinely affect the shaping of their soul.
This wasn’t just shape transformation. Every ounce of that soul cloud represented the quantity of the soul.
If he made any mistake, his soul could lose a part.
Fortunately, none of that happened as he managed to form a humanoid soul.
Of course, it didn’t end there.
The transformation required quality improvement. If the shaping was about quantity, this improvement would lead to an increase in quality.
At this moment, his soul began fusing with his mana.
The Void Mana and Time Mana began to affect his soul. At the same time, he also used Harmony of Nine Phoenixes to refine Yin-Yang Mana.
Once this mana was refined, he used it as well.
His goal was to strengthen his soul using three different types of mana, and coincidentally, all three types were extremely powerful.
So when these three types of mana merged with his soul, the entire soul changed completely.
It changed into a tri-colored soul.
Silver for Yin-Yang, Golden for time, and Purple for Void.
His entire soul was separated into three colors, but they didn’t make him look bad.
Instead, these colors only made him look divine.
Of course, he couldn’t care less about the color changes. It was his Spiritual Sense that mattered the most.
When his soul evolved, he felt an extraordinary perception awakening in the depths of his soul.
It was released from his soul, but he didn’t let it move out of his sea of consciousness.
Instead, the moment it was formed, he used his thoughts to link himself with the spiritual sense.
The moment this link was forged, Tyler found himself in a strange situation.
His hands, his nose, his mouth, his brain, his blood, his soul, his techniques, everything seemed to be under his control.
Not like the instinctual one but rather a controlled command.
This felt strangely abnormal, but he knew this was just his first time using the spiritual sense.
This sense of superiority slowly vanished as he utilized the spiritual sense to manifest three of his techniques inside the sea of consciousness.
Not only that, but he also found something interesting in his mind.
His memories!