Chapter 34: Ye Mo Awakens His Divine Soul (1)

"You can awaken your Divine Soul in the Soul pond." the system explained patiently.

"Wait, the Divine Soul Awakening Ceremony is just a week away, why should I awaken my divine soul now?" Ye Mo asked suspiciously, wondering if the system just wanted to dupe him of his hard-earned experience points. It was widely known that the divine soul was awakened on a specific day. He did not want make an hasty decision, waiting for a few days was nothing.

"This world has a special day for the soul awakening, do you think that you will be the only one in the awakening ocean, there will be thousands of people, so the effects of the soul awakening fluid will be shared amongst you. Have I ever given you a fake or substandard goods, it's just a few experience points."

Ye Mo mouth twitched a little, "Is there any advantage if I use the soul pond?"

"Humph! The soul pond is covered in a runic water, unlike the fluid, it has a deeper connection to the divine soul world. More importantly, doing it here will prevent any mishap from happening, there have been cases where youths gets killed because of the extremely powerful divine soul they awaken. A man's treasure brings his doom."

Ye Mo face darkened, he couldn't agree any less with that, to be at a safer side, he decided to spend his experience points, seeing his now blank experience points bar, his heart ached.

"The Kung Fu Spirit Realm marks the start of the cultivation journey, the body realm is the layout of the foundation for the spirit realm, while the body realm strengthens and build your body, the spirit realm contains three important things..."

"What other things? Isn't it just about awakening of the divine soul?" Ye Mo interjected.

"No, there is more to the spirit realm. Awakening of the spirit meridians.

After a brief pause, the explanation went on.

"When you awaken your divine soul, you are also awakening your spirit meridians. There are 108 main meridians and 1024 branch meridians. The main meridians are the meridians that control your power output, they are the main fighting force. They are the passageway through which spiritual energy flows in and out of the body.

"The 108 main meridians are split in the nine stages of the spirit realm,12 main meridians awaken at every stage. So when your divine soul awakens, the first twelve meridians also awaken. After that incident, your meridians have become stronger, tougher and thicker."

Seeing it's host listening with rapt attention, it rattled on, "The refinement your meridians underwent will significantly boost your combat power when your spirit meridians awaken. As for the 1024 branch meridians, it is not usually cultivated as it is deemed a waste of time. Since the Primordial Chaos Era, those who cultivated their branch meridians can be counted with one hand.

"Although the branch meridians seems insignificant to many, the few that successfully cultivated them stood at the Apex of the cultivation world. The branch meridians are thin, soft and thread like, they are connected to the thick and sturdy main meridians. They are complicated yet simple, I will refrain from telling you all the benefits of cultivating the branch meridians."

"Are the branch meridians that important?" Ye Mo asked skeptically.

"Yes, absolutely, in a illustrative term, those cultivating the main meridians are akin to having two hands, while those cultivating both meridians are akin to having six hands, they can multitask and bring out greater efficiency, thanks to the baptismal at the cave, your branch meridians are as thick and strong as the main meridians. There is not much difference between them."

"So think about it, you basically have 1132 main meridians right now, the rate at which you absorb spiritual energy will be many times faster than others, the circulation of your spiritual energy will be in similar manner."

"Wow!... Can I cultivate both meridians?"

"Of course, you can. After the clearing of the 12 meridians, you will move to the next stage of the spirit realm. You must handle both the main and branch meridians with the same level of seriousness."

Ye Mo nodded his head solemnly, anything that would bring him an advantage over others ought to be handled with utmost care. He couldn't help but imagine his astonishing terrific power while trashing those realms above him.

"And lastly, you will form the Divine Core [1] after the spirit meridians have been awakened, this is the store for spiritual energy. In the body realm, although you could make use of spiritual energy, it couldn't be stored in the body, those that cultivated to the Ninth stage of the Kung Fu Body Realm have no means of even using spiritual energy, your usage of spiritual energy was quite taxing to your meridians. In the spirit realm, the body, soul and spiritual energy strikes a balance and medium. Spiritual energy can be stored in the body. But the storage medium is missing, this brings about the formation of the Divine Core.

"The Divine Core is oval, it has different colors, this is where the spiritual energy is stored. After the awakening of the spirit meridians, there will be an influx of spiritual energy flowing into the body, this energy will flow through the newly awaken meridians into the left lower part of the stomach, the spiritual energy will slowly form a yolk like embryo of the core. After repeated hammering, the embryonic form of the core will solidify to form a sturdy and oval Divine Core, which houses all the spiritual energy in the body.

"You will form a Divine Core at every stage in the Kung Fu Spirit Realm, making it a total of nine Divine cores, the bigger the core, the more spiritual energy it contains. With your ability to make use of Spiritual energy will put you in an advantage when forming the Divine Core".

Ye Mo remained silent for a long time. After after digesting the big load of information, he nodded his head, his complacent attitude wafted off. The complications of cultivation had laid itself bare to him, the start of a new path was about to begin.

Thankfully, he had two advantages, while he might not fully grasp them now, time will tell how much of a significant help they would be.

"Above all, the most important deciding force of how far you can go in the world of cultivation is ryr the Divine Soul, the grade of your divine soul determines the highest stage you can reach.

"Divine Soul has four grades, this is a knowledge that is meant to be bought with your experience points but.."

"They are the Supreme Grade Divine Soul, the Transcendent Grade Divine Soul, the Immortal Grade Divine Soul and the Primordial Grade Divine Soul.

"The most common type is the Supreme Grade Divine Soul, this grade of divine soul is trashy, the apex is the Grandmaster Realm. Divine Soul can be in any form, elements, inheritances, weapons, domains, techniques, beasts and whatnot. Transcendent Grade Divine Soul stands at the apex of this world, they wield greater power and authority. The Immortal Grade Divine Soul is very rare, those who possess this divine soul are the true elite, it would be good enough if you are lucky to awaken a divine soul of this grade. Your future prospect will be brighter. Those in the lower realm who awaken this grade of divine soul are usually poached by forces in the higher realms.

"What about the Primordial Grade Divine Soul?" asked Ye Mo with his eyes narrowed.

"Forget about that, that grade of divine soul has not appeared in centuries, even millennials, the last time it appeared was during the Primordial Survival Era, a lone genius singlehandedly turned the tides of the ancient war and lead the people to another era."

"Is it that powerful?" Ye Mo asked, although he did not no the scale of the war, he deduced that it was very catastrophic judging from the solemnity of the system voice.

"A Primordial Grade Divine Soul can influence the great Dao, the birth of that soul will bring a upheaval to the heavens, they are followed by great natural phenomenons. Their sneeze can cause the day to turn to the night."

"Isn't that a little bit exaggerated!" Ye Mo voiced out.

"Absolutely not, in the Primordial Chaos Era, there were plenty of those ancient geniuses who possessed this divine soul, their glory spread across all realms. In this current era, it is likely it will emerge again, this is a good and bad thing, if they are discovered they would be killed instantly."

"Why? Isn't it a good thing?"

"The world of cultivation is more complicated than you think, nobody wants to be ruled, they can't take orders from others. The insatiable urge for power tends to be the driving force that prevents the growth of younger and promising geniuses.

"Your main goal is to cultivate quietly, avoid the spotlight, be mysterious. A slight mistake can make the whole realm hunt you down."

Ye Mo took a deep breath, his eyes shone with fierce light, the life he wanted to live was one that was peaceful and devoid of any troubles, he was not interested in fighting for authority. But if any Tom, Dick and Harry tries to create problems for him, he didn't mind silencing them to their eighteenth generation. He felt a whole lot of pressure, he put on a confident smile as he opened the door to the innermost building.