C59 Learning how to Symbolize

Kyle placed his palm atop the Chaos Beast corpse.

He then started to absorb energy, just like he was absorbing the energy in the surroundings when cultivating.

Strangely... He could feel a gush of energy coming from the corpse. This energy was very wild and untamed, compared to the energy that he was used to cultivating.

However, even though this energy was very wild and hard to contain. It flowed inside him flawlessly, like a peaceful, serene lake.

The chaos energy coming from the corpse relentlessly entered his veins and circulated throughout his body.

When it came close to his Dantian, surprisingly... the usual, energy blocking effect of his dantian did not happen.

The chaos energy was fully absorbed by his dantian, like a hungry beast, that has not devoured anything for eternity.

Kyle felt his Qi cultivation rise up rapidly as he continuously absorbs the chaos energy from the corpse.

The increase in his cultivation was even better than, absorbing the spirit stones that he got from Ximen Tiaolong.

This made him escape a small smile on his face. His problems in cultivating Qi was now solved, so he was obviously glad about this.

After emptying up the energy of one of the corpses, Kyle moved to another dead chaos beast.

He did the same thing, but this time... He did not completely absorb everything inside his dantian.

He let the chaos energy roam through his body, and circulated it by following the instructions on his Chaos God Body Transformation Manual.

After finishing up the energies on the corpse, his body improved slightly, but the effects were minimal, as he needed more energy to at least step on the first stage of his new body cultivation manual.

Nevertheless, the increase was a lot better, compared to his normal tempering method on his body.

So he continued and absorbed all the remaining chaos beasts corpse.

After he was done with it, there weren't any breakthroughs that happened, however, he was already glad, because, he had now found a new way to improve his cultivation.

So, he decided to use his free time on hunting chaos beasts, while he refines the Divine core.

"Let's continue... But this time, I won't make a move. You need to defeat them on your own. understood?" Uncle Shi suddenly said after he saw Kyle finishing up with his absorption.

Kyle felt that it was a waste of opportunity since this uncle of his, could've boosted him up faster and let him cultivate easier.

But still... He had no problems with this because he wasn't really expecting for someone to carry him on becoming a true expert.

So, Kyle and Uncle Shi traveled the dark, deep grounds to look for chaos beasts. Uncle Shi just stood behind Kyle as he followed him since he wanted to observe him on his training.

There are numerous Chaos Beasts here, so finding another one wasn't that hard. After searching for a couple of minutes, they encountered another pack of Chaos wolves.

"Grrr... Grrr..."

They came in groups and surrounded both of them in a second.

There are a lot more this time, however, these wolves only had the strength of a 2nd Xiantian, such as they were all foods for Kyle.

He did need to make a step and just waited for the upcoming attacks.

When they charged for him, he one-shotted all of these wolves by punching the space. The shockwave wave was too much for them, so they got blown away easily.

As these wolves only had the strength of a 2nd Xiantian, they obviously can't take a single punch of Kyle's attack, so they died easily.

He then proceeded to absorb the energies and continued to search for more.

This routine continued for a couple of times.

As they traveled deeper inside, the strength of these chaos beasts gets stronger each time, however, they were still not enough to create trouble for Kyle.

After hours of this routine. Kyle could finally feel the improvements on his body.

He still did not achieve the Transformation Stage of his Body Cultivation Manual, however, he could feel himself close to breaking through the 4th stage on his body cultivation.

But before he could continue to break through. Uncle Shi suddenly interrupted him.

"Let's go back, for now. You can continue your breakthrough tomorrow. Your body is still in an unstable situation; due to your continuous absorption. Your Chaos Body might be able to absorb Chaos Energy, but you should still remember, that too much energy could cause your body an overload." Uncle Shi said as he created a portal out of thin air.

He then stepped inside. Hearing his guidance, Kyle listened to him, so he followed after.

Uncle Shi was right. His body right now was unstable, so he needed some time to let his body adjust and absorbed the energies properly.

....

Kyle and Uncle Shi came back to the throne room.

Now that they have nothing to do, Uncle Shi decided to teach him about Soul Symbolizers.

"Before I'll start to teach you how to become a Soul Symbolizer, tell me first... What do you know about Soul Symbolizers?" Uncle Shi asks Kyle about his current knowledge about Souls Symbolyzers, so he could have a general idea on how to proceed on teaching him.

Such as, Kyle told him all about his knowledge regarding Soul Symbolizers that he had learned from Feng Yexue.

"Hmmm... You are mostly correct, regarding those monopolies on Soul Techniques, especially to those symbol formulas." Uncle Shi said and continued:

"The power of the soul is very powerful and sometimes omnipotent. There are a lot of cases where a cultivator that have higher cultivation and stronger body, losses against someone who had a very powerful soul, despite being a lot weaker in cultivation. However, soul techniques and creating symbols, heavily relied on manuals and formulas, hence those bigger clans/sects monopolize it."

Kyle found it strange since, if that's the case, then, how did it all started? What did those people, who were the first ones to discover the power of the soul did, to create these manuals and formulas?

But before he could ask Uncle Shi about his hypothesis, Uncle Shi broke him from his thoughts and said: "Of course, you could create your own symbol and techniques regarding soul power if you try hard enough. Those current formulas and manuals that those big groups monopolized are the hard work and countless trials of their former Soul Symbolizers predecessors.

And then he continued: "However, creating your own formulas or techniques, could use up and waste a lot of your time, hence, normal Soul Symbolizers uses those that have been perfected and researched by their own predecessors."

As Kyle listened to Uncle Shi, he wondered if its really hard to create those symbols. "Isn't those symbols, just like kanji words, that were written with the use of soul power? Why is it so hard?"

Kyle had already lived in this world for years already, so he obviously had seen those villagers write something. Strangely... The people in this world, know and have been using those kanji words, so Kyle wondered why is it hard.

"Are you thinking why is it hard to create symbols, when symbols are just like writing a word?" But Uncle Shi's next words interrupted Kyle.

Kyle exclaimed when he heard his words, but he nodded on his questions.

"Being a Soul Symbolizer isn't that easy. Creating Symbols might just look like you are writing a word with the use of Soul power, however, you are sadly mistaken. When you create a Soul Symbol, you are just not writing a word, but you are also creating a spiritual body for this symbol, and inside this spiritual body, are soul points, that differs depending on its variety, for example:" uncle Shi took out three blank talismans.

He wrote the symbol HARD on each of these blank talismans.

Kyle's eyes grew wide when he saw these talismans. He wasn't shocked because of the talisman since he had already seen one, and seeing a talisman isn't worth eye-widening.

His eyes widened because of the grade of this talisman. From what he recalled from Feng Yexue there are 2 stages of Soul Symbolizers: Moon And Star with a silver and golden hue.

However, the three talismans before him had red hues around them, and at the upper left of the symbol, five radiant suns could be seen.

Kyle guessed that this must be a higher stage, compared to the former two that Feng Yexue had told him.

Uncle Shi then took the first talisman and told him: "Here, try to punch this."

Kyle followed up and punch the talisman.

*crack*

The talisman did harden, however, it easily broke when Kyle punch it normally.

"Try this!" Uncle Shi then lifted up the second talisman.

Kyle guessed what he was planning to tell him, so he followed his instructions. He punched it with his normal force, however, when his punch landed, the talisman did not break.

"Punch harder!" Uncle Shi demanded.

As he was told, he punched with double efforts and the talisman finally got destroyed.

"Now do you see the difference?" Uncle Shi said.

"The first talisman was created with the use of one soul point, while the second one was created with ten soul points."

"Then, does that mean I just need to increase the soul points when creating one?" Kyle asks as he was curious about this.

"That's correct, however... Do you know where to place those soul points? Do you know the sequence? Do you know it's variety? That's why Soul Symbolizers relied on those manuals and formulas, to prevent them from wasting their time on researching. And there are other cases where more isn't better, for example:" Uncle Shi took out the last talisman and ordered Kyle to break it.

Kyle then threw a fist to the last talisman.

*duug*

It isn't effective...

*duug* *duug*

It still isn't effective...

Kyle used his Busoshoku and gave it his all.

*DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!*

But it still did not break.

Kyle was shocked by this. Even though this wasn't his strongest punch. It still contained the power of at least, 5th stage Xiantian, however, it didn't even make a dent on the talisman; that was created, for like a minute.

"Isn't this talisman stronger than those armors and defensive charms out there?" He thought as he was impressed by its strength.

"Now... do you understand the importance of formulas? This 3rd talisman only had eight soul points, however, it is made by following a manual from the clan. Do you see the difference?"

Kyle could only nod at this point and continued to listen to him.

Seeing him nod obediently, a proud look escaped Uncle Shi's face, as he continued with his lessons.