Chapter 56

“BOINK!”

“BOINK!”

“BOINK!” a whirring sound totally covered Clark’s form at the moment. There was an otherworldly aura around his body as a swaying mixture of hues tried to fight amongst one another for dominance.

More than that, it was as if he had been innately gifted with the capacity to ignore the very pull of gravity itself. Clark felt as light as a feather.

“Something’s dragging me upwards. Is this...” And so to test his theory out, Clark tried jumping.

“WOAAAAA! I can fly now! HAHAHA!” Clark’s body levitated easily above ground.

He laughed in joy for his first experience at true flight but his glee was cut short when his long grey hair rose and his white beard followed suit that completely covered his face in an eerie comic show for horror and all things weird.

“ACHOO!” Clark could not help but sneezed a couple of times as his beard tickled his nose to no end.

“Wait, wait, wait!”

“How do i control this kind of power, Nancy?” Clark asked while he held down his long beard with one hand. It was of course a given that he was forced to land to face this current predicament.

If he should open his palms once more, there was no doubt that the same result earlier would have happened once again. Clark would have an instant mask made out of his own facial hair.

It was pretty unnatural.

“You need only to control the scattered spiritual energy around your body, host. Treat it as not mere accumulation of different colors but also an extension of your will.

These receptors would serve as useful aids for faster cultivation and they are also one of the main tools for battle as a fully fledged Foundation Establishment Master.” Nancy replied.

“Extension of my will, huh?” Clark muttered and imagined the gushing flood of colors as one of his hands. He particularly used this trick initially at the rampaging wily beard on his chin.

“ACHOO!”

“Try again!”

“ACHOO!”

“AGAIN!”

“ACHOO!”

“I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT I WON’T MASTER SUCH A SIMPLE TECHNIQUE LIKE THIS ONE!”

“ACHOO!”

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...

Clark persevered and with tenacity comes victory.

Alas, he only wasted 5 minutes of his life to learn this kind of magical persuasion and finally settle his unruly beard down without the use of holding them tightly like before.

Clark immediately went in front of a full sized mirror to check how great these changes had brought upon his form.

“HAHAHA! THIS IS SO COOL!”

“I look like Goku in my new hairstyle! Well, maybe a lot more like the adult Gon with how long my hair is right now and all of it standing straight up to the heavens.”

Clark grinned widely and tried to tweak how the energy from outside his body would design his current hairstyle.

“Maybe I should try separating my hair strands ever slightly.”

“Need more separation.”

“And...”

“FUCK! My hair looks like chaotic healthy grasses on the fields!” Clark shook his head and in the end, he chose something standard and a lot more bearable than any other selections he could pick.

He let his white hair hang freely over his shoulders and unto his back. It gave off an untamed persona of a real man with how blatantly careless he was in this appearance.

Chapter 57

“Now... this is the image of a wild and free man!” Clark applauded himself. In fact, there was really no significant change on his hairdo between now and from when he was still in the Mortal Shedding Realm.

Perhaps the only difference was the constantly changing shades that shrouded the entirety of his body at the moment.

“Now about this aura feature. What are these things exactly, Nancy?”

“The different colors around you represent the myriad elements in nature, host.”

“Earth is brown. Water is blue. Green is for Air. Red is equal to Fire. Yellow for Lightning. Grey for Ice. And many more other hybrids and mixtures of various elements.

Although you could call on them easily but purifying their essences and shaping it to your own use is an entirely different matter altogether since you could only ever cultivate an element that is inherent within your physique.” Nancy answered.

“And what element or elements do i have, Nancy?” Clark was thrilled to know.

“I’m sorry, host. You only have the most common spiritual vein, The Mortal Vein. If not for the system’s assistance, no mortal vein could have successfully cultivated into the 1st Stage of Mortal Shedding Realm.

You are indeed very lucky, host. If you still want to have an upgraded spiritual vein, worry not because a small obstacle like this one is easy for the system to cure.

We have on the system a lot of unique spiritual veins for sale. Please do visit our system shop for further details on this one, host.” Nancy advised.

‘While those gifted sons and daughters of heaven get to manipulate the elements and devour them at will but I can only eat their fart as consequence for being so ineptly gifted in cultivation.’ Clark sighed.

“I’ll look at them later, Nancy. Thank you.” Clark replied. He already had a clear idea on what he would find once he searched for those said items.

It was the same things he was privy enough to see during his early inquiries from before. At this moment though, he tackled on the next of his mundane problems.

‘Hmmm... What color should i choose for my unique aura getup?’

‘It must be one of a kind!’

‘And cool to the eyes!’

‘Must be catchy and interesting to look at!’ Clark began to test his tastes. First, he tried purple. It was the color of royalty and extreme want for creativity.

“Nah... Reminds of that rotten boy on his flying evil sword.” Next he tried blue.

“Too common!”

“PASS!” Then he wore pink.

“Too feminine.”

“SIGH!” And then silver.

“I look like a fucking ghost in the mirror!” Even Clark was scared at his reflection. White hair, white beard, and white climate around him definitely did not give a soothing picture for the eyes at all.

“DAMN!” Next was a gold aura over his body.

“Ohhh... And now i’m like the next fake Goku or something. Or perhaps the dirty old man next door with my current wardrobe.” Clark laughed heartily for a couple of minutes.

He tried all tinges of colors he could imagine until he finally decided on a single one in the end.

“Since i never planned to be a good man in this xianxia world, then let all these brainless NPCs tremble before my presence!”

Clark announced like an Infamous Edge Lord of Old. He certainly had a flair for drama in his veins.

“Body Switch!” He said and vanished from the room with only wisps of darkness left behind him.